Specimen book of type,
A 1904 specimen book issued by the United States Government Printing Office in Washington for its document divisions, showing type and printing ornaments for official government printing. The pictures are small numbered seals and emblems printed as examples, including a circular Department of the Interior seal with a perched eagle and a shield-shaped crest with a steamship and eagle, each set in a rule-bordered frame with a number label beneath. A designer might take from them the formal, symmetrical seal layouts and the way a dense eagle motif reads within a circle or shield.
