Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum
An 1907 annual report issued by the Washington government printing office for the United States National Museum, a federal museum of the Smithsonian Institution, aimed at Congress and the public. The only picture is the Smithsonian seal: a circular emblem with a globe at centre, two torches flanking it, and the motto 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men' around the rim, dated 1846. A designer might take its ring-of-text layout, crossed torches and globe as a model for institutional seals and badges.
