Historic Documents & Official Publications (Database)

Documents, including PDF photo collections, reproductions and scans of drawings, illustrations, and images, from the archives of the U.S. Coast Guard and its five predecessor agencies: the Revenue Cutter Service, the Life-Saving Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Steamboat Inspection Service from the Coast Guard Archives and Special Collections, Coast Guard, and National Archives.

NOTE: Documents provided are in the public domain.

U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
2703 Martin Luther King, Jr., Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20593-7031


U.S. Coast Guard Museum
Coast Guard Academy - Waesche Hall
15 Mohegan Ave
New London, CT 06320-8100

Contacting us:  U.S.C.G. Historian's Office

Images & Photographs

1915 Design of New USCG Seal

Official memorandum on the design of the official seal of the U.S. Coast Guard as based on the seal of the Revenue Cutter Service, January 27, 1915. Source: NARA; Box 38; Entry 82A; File 020 File; "File 1910-1922 General."

VIRIN: 1915_USCG_SEAL_DESIGN.PDF
Photo by: USCG Historian's Office

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