File:Seal of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.jpg

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Illustration of the seal of the U.S. Department of Health (which existed from 1953 to 1979), from s:Executive Order 10510 (which defined the seal). The design is described there as:

SHIELD: Argent an open book with sanguine binding charged overall with a staff of Aesculapius paleways within an annulet of chain all proper.

CREST: On a wreath argent and sanguine an American bald eagle displayed and wings partially inverted proper.

Below the shield a white scroll inscribed with the motto "SPES ANCHORA VITAE" in black letters, all on a ciruclar sanguine background within a white band, inner edge sanguine, and inscribed "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE U. S. A."
The motto means Hope is the anchor of life.
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Source Scanned from Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 1949-1953 Comp., p. 991 or so (lost the actual page).
Author U.S. Government
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This image is a work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
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