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DescriptionSeal of the United States Federal Reserve Board.svg
Seal of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System.
This version of the seal mostly dates from 1935, when that year's Banking Act changed the official name from "Federal Reserve Board" to "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System", meaning the seal had to be redone. Paul Philippe Cret, who had designed and was building the Eccles Building (the Board's headquarters) at the time, arranged the eagle, shield, and inscriptions. The Board added the ring of stars to represent the states (48 at the time, now 50).[1]
The seal contains a Federal eagle and shield, and branches of olive and oak (all symbols found on other federal seals). The twelve stars on the shield presumably represent the twelve federal reserve banks.
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Extracted from PDF file here, and colorized according to GIF file on this page (direct GIF URL [2]).
Public domain from a copyright perspective, but other trademark-like restrictions apply. The symbol may not be used to convey the impression that a nonmember bank, banking association, firm or partnership is a member of the Federal reserve system (per 18 U.S.C § 709). Also see 18 U.S.C § 701.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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