Keywords: PresidentHayesInvitationCOAScan.png A presidential coat of arms used on an invitation by President Hayes There were a couple of other very similar versions used during his administration which through some intermediate versions are the ancestor of the current design of the Seal of the President of the United States Scanned from page 427 of The Eagle And The Shield 1978 by Richard S Patterson and Richardson Dougall Taken from a blank invitation used during the Hayes administration which embossed the arms in gold The form is or was in 1978 in the White House Documents file Division of Political History National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Institution Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution negative no 77-10304 1877-1881 Author PD-USGov Seal of the President of the United States |