Image:US-GreatSeal-Obverse.svg

Image:US-GreatSeal-Obverse.svg

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US-GreatSeal-Obverse.svg‎ (SVG file, nominally 726 × 726 pixels, file size: 742 KB)

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Summary

Description

English: Obverse of the Great Seal of the United States.

Source

Extracted from PDF version of Our Flag, available here (direct PDF URL here.)

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U.S. Government

Permission
(Reusing this image)

Public domain from a copyright standpoint, but other restrictions apply. 18 U.S.C. § 713 states that nobody can knowingly display any printed or other likeness of the Great Seal of the United States, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof.

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Licensing

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.

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

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	Date/Time	User	Dimensions	File size	Comment
current	04:57, 28 January 2008	Ipankonin	726×726	742 KB	(gigantic fancy border)
	23:30, 16 January 2008	Ipankonin	720×720	738 KB	(reduce gigantic outline on the shield)
	06:39, 15 January 2008	Ipankonin	720×720	738 KB	(step gradients -> radial gradients)
	05:31, 15 January 2008	Ipankonin	720×720	735 KB	(replaced some step-gradients with real SVG radial gradients)
	10:34, 12 December 2007	Ipankonin	720×720	749 KB	(removed stars per [[http://www.state.gov/www/publications/great_seal.pdf US State Dept.])
	22:20, 14 November 2007	Ktims	720×720	763 KB	(Re-extracted from same PDF as original. Image appears identical - but file size is 1.3MB smaller.)
	14:55, 28 September 2007	Clindberg	720×720	2.1 MB	(==Summary== {Information \|Description={{en\|Obverse of the en:Great Seal of the United States.}} \|Source=Extracted from PDF version of ''Our Flag'', available [http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Flags_vrd.htm here] (direct PDF U)

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