A sukkah was nearly selected as the symbol of America. On July 4, 1776, the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to design a seal for ...
Small, Herbert, "The Library of Congress: its architecture and decoration," New York: Norton, 1982, pg. 152-156. Summary Seal of the United States at center of the disc of the dome surrounded by a ...
Photocopy of an article from : Magazine of American history, v. 29, no. 5, May - June 1893. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...