History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . in. On the farther bank, a locomotive andtrain of cars is seen on a railroad just emerging from between a cutin two hills. Mountains in the distance, and over all a scroll, themotto, Equality heforc the Law. The arms of Nebraska are the same as the seal, omitting thelegend. Colorado was admitted into the Union Aug. 1,1876. Its name isSpanis
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . in. On the farther bank, a locomotive andtrain of cars is seen on a railroad just emerging from between a cutin two hills. Mountains in the distance, and over all a scroll, themotto, Equality heforc the Law. The arms of Nebraska are the same as the seal, omitting thelegend. Colorado was admitted into the Union Aug. 1,1876. Its name isSpanish, and signifies red. It has legalized no State flag. The territorial seal of Colorado was two inches in diameter, was surrounded by the legend, Sigillum Territorii Coloradensis, 1861, and had for its devices a shield, the lower half of which was or, and bore a miners pick and mallet crossed; the upper half azure, bearin a range of snow-clad mountains; over the shield a battle-axe and fasces, inscribed Constitution Union; over that again, the all-seeing eye in a triangle, surrounded by rays. In a scroll underneath the shield, the ] Colorado. moHo,Nil Sine numine. The State seal is the same, with the necessary alteration in the legend and The Territory of Utah. — In 1866, Brigham Young wrote me, We have no territorial flag. Our flag is the flag of the nation, — thestars and stripes. None has been since adopted. The Territory ofUtah was organized Sept. 9, 1850, and a seal was adopted immedi- STATE SEALS, ARMS. FLAGS, AND COLORS. 653 ately after. The device is a beehive on a stand surrounded by flowers,?with bees hovering around it, emblematic of the industry of its the seal is the legend, Territory of Utah, mdcccl,and above the date and at the base of the hive, Sept. 9. Thediameter of the seal is one inch and three-quarters.
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