Winthrop papers
The Winthrop papers is a published collection of colonial correspondence and manuscripts, issued by the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston and drawn from the family of the Puritan governor John Winthrop, for scholars of early New England. Its pictures are plain line engravings of the society's seal showing a church steeple, a beehive-shaped hut and a Latin motto, a faint oval portrait of a bearded man in a collar, and a page of handwritten manuscript with boxed interlinear notes; a designer might take the seal's circular text-and-emblem layout as a model for badge design.
