January
Jun 3 SI Approves New Seal for Smithson Bicentennial
Year:
1966
Month:
june
Day:
3
Date:
Fri, 1966-06-03
SIA Image reference:
A new Smithsonian seal is approved, in the form of the sun with alternating straight and wavy rays representing heat and light -- "The Sun in His Splendor." It bears the inscription: "Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C." The seal was designed at the request of Secretary S. Dillon Ripley to coincide with the bicentennial of James Smithson's birth.