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Description

Seal of the old United States Department of Health. The seal was defined by Executive Order 10510 on December 17, 1953. The blazon is defined here as:

SHIELD: Argent an open book with sanguine binding charged overall with a staff of Aescalapius paleways within an annulet of chain all proper.

CREST: On a wreath argent and sanguine an American bald eagle displayed and wings partially inverted proper.

Below the shield a white scroll inscribed with the motto SPES ANCHORA VITAE in black letters, all on a circular sanguine background within a white band, inner edge white, outer edge sanguine, and inscribed DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE U.S.A.

The Latin inscription means Hope is the anchor of life.
Source

From a photo of the seal on a dais (direct image URL [1]).
Date

ca. 1954
Author

National Archives and Records Service photo
Permission
(Reusing this image)

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Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright.

Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision.

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