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| Keywords: US presidential seals 1885 Daily Graphic.png Various old versions of the Seal of the President of the United States as printed in an 1885 issue of the Daily Graphic a New York newspaper The large seal on the left was made in 1850 by Edward Stabler a Maryland farmer postmaster and engraver who made many governmental seals at the time It was made according to the rough design submitted by President Fillmore which can be seen at the bottom center The associated article said that a smaller version was made by Stabler at the time but since the seal in the upper right has only 27 stars and is labeled The Old Seal it would instead appear to be an earlier seal dating from about 1846 The seal in the bottom right was used by Thomas Mifflin the President of the Continental Congress in 1784 It is a reprint from an 1856 Harpers Magazine article by Benson J Lossing Scanned from page 421 of The Eagle And The Shield 1978 by Richard S Patterson and Richardson Dougall Reprinted from July 3 1885 issue of the Daily Graphic page 20 Courtesy of the Library of Congress 1885; seals from 1783 1850 and possibly 1846 Daily Graphic PD-US PD-USGov Seal of the President of the United States Halftone Daily Graphic | ||||
