City seals!

[JivecitySTL]

Here are some seals from some of my favorite cities:

Baltimore
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Seal_of_Baltimore.jpg

Boston
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Boston_city_seal.png

Chicago
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/ChicagoSeal2.png

Cincinnati
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/CinciSeal.gif

Cleveland
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Cleveland_Municipal_Seal.svg/200px-Cleveland_Municipal_Seal.svg.png

Detroit
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Detroit_Seal.png

Los Angeles
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Seal_of_Los_Angeles%2C_California.svg/600px-Seal_of_Los_Angeles%2C_California.svg.png

New York City
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Us-nycsl.png

Philadelphia
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Philadelphia_City_Seal_Color.jpg

Pittsburgh
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Pghsealbcba.jpg

St. Louis
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Stl_cityseal.jpg

San Francisco
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Sfseal.gif


I especially love Philly's, Chicago's, Detroit's and Baltimore's. Cleveland-- can't you guys do better? What was the original seal? That can't be it!

Post yours!

[Wheelingman04]

Cool thread idea. Pittsburgh's is the worst of all of them. I like all the rest though.

[Flash]

I've always loved Pittsburgh's.

http://pittsburghskyline.com/x/x0506.06.jpg

[JManc]

texas cities...

http://iws.ccccd.edu/dgarrison/TEXAS%20SEAL.gif

houston

http://www.hal-pc.org/~lfa/cityseal.jpg

dallas

http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/cso/images/seal.gif

fort worth

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Fort_Worth_seal.jpg

austin

http://www.landmark-yachats.com/images/bands/austin_tx_seal_200pix.jpg

san antonio

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Sanantonioseal.jpeg

el paso

http://www.elpasotexas.gov/records/_images/cityseal_small.gif

[Derek]

San Diego:
http://encyclopedia.quickseek.com/images/San_Diego_City_Seal.png

[LyndaleHoosier]

Oh yeah...I like the Pittsburgh seal!

Here is Minneapolis:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Mplsseal.gif

[Evergrey]

I've always loved Pittsburgh's.


Agreed! Easily one of my favorite city seals. It just looks so powerful... and establishes the black and gold color scheme. Fits the city perfectly.

[DenverInfill]

Denver

http://www.denverinfill.com/sspuploads/ccd_seal.jpg

[vertex]

Here are the old-school and current seals for Phoenix

http://phoenix.gov/SCANPIC/oldbird1.gif http://www.ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/wet/pics/sponsors%20logos/City%20of%20Phoenix%20logo%20copy.jpg

[bnk]

Can we do city flags next? After this thread is over.

[Blitz]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b60/cmb256/seal2.jpg

[Major AWACS]

Can we do city flags next? After this thread is over.

what happened to my gianormous city flag thread? I did it about two years ago but I can't find it on the old archive? I could repost if I could find it out in cyber space.

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, It's a sweater El Guapo

[bnk]

what happened to my gianormous city flag thread? I did it about two years ago but I can't find it on the old archive? I could repost if I could find it out in cyber space.

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, It's a sweater El Guapo


Thanks for the info on your flag thread. But I have not been around that long to know about it. I would like to have seen it.

[foxmtbr]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/SacramentoCAseal.jpg

[zilfondel]

Screw this!

The REAL city seals!
http://p.vtourist.com/362324-Those_great_SF_seals-San_Francisco.jpg

[Wheelingman04]

The Pittsburgh one looks a lot better on that flag.

[EventHorizon]

I like Pittsburgh's. I think it's technically a coat of arms rather than a 'seal'.

It comes from the full arms of William Pitt.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k148/MRM80/coat.jpg
(Displayed at Fort Pitt)

[Evergrey]

The Pittsburgh one looks a lot better on that flag.

The seafoam green background (which is not part of the seal) in the original picture posted is not very flattering.

[staff]

Malmö's seal from when it was a Danish city:
http://www.library.nd.edu/medieval_library/seals/muni/malmostad.gif

Modern seal:
http://www.ikf.se/data/ikf/files/image/malmo_stad_staende.jpg

Copenhagen:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fo/thumb/a/a7/København-logo.png/140px-København-logo.png

[Cirrus]

This thread reminds me of a joke my friend Chrysantha likes:

Girl: Hey, let's go clubbing tonight!
Guy: We have clubs in this town?
Girl: No, but we have BABY SEALS!

Hahahahaha

Anyway.

Washington:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Seal-DC.png

[JivecitySTL]

^How could I have forgotten DC? Nice seal.

I think I found Cleveland's original seal, although it looks like it's associated with its city council:

http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/Portals/0/Skins/CCH_Original/images/logo.gif

[GeorgeLV]

Las Vegas
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1606/lasvegassealsz5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7448/lasvegascitysealby7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I think we're the only city that includes a depiction of skyscrapers on the city seal.

[LuckyTrix]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/luckytrix/independenceseal.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/luckytrix/orlandoseal.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/luckytrix/TampaSeal.jpg

[CGII]

http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Milwaupolit/milseal2.gif

And

http://watchdogmilwaukee.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/seal.jpg

[SuburbanNation]

i cant see any of the seals due to a challenging internet connection, but ive always been partial to the stl seal, with its riverboat. in fact, i have a coaster here with the seal on it, with a can of beer on it.

[Swede]

Stockholm's had many versions thru the centuries, all variations of St. Erik

medival
http://www.library.nd.edu/medieval_library/seals/muni/stockholm.jpg

modern
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Stockholm_coa.png

[skrish]

Calgary
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Calgary_Crest.jpg

Crest: A mural crown signifying city status and loyalty, with the setting sun representing Calgary's position in western Canada.
Shield:
~ Chief: A setting sun over the Rocky Mountains
~ Charges: A bull buffalo (the original inhabitant of the area) charging a maple leaf (representing Canada) that surmounts the Cross of St. George (representing the english settlers that founded the city).
Compartment: The mount consists of two red maple leaves (symbolising Canada), a thistle (for Scotland), leek (for Wales), shamrocks (for Ireland) and a rose (for England).
Supporters: A horse and a steer, representing the ranching past.
Scroll: The city motto, "Onward" between the foundation year (1884) and the incorporation year (1894).

The Union Jack and the Canadian Red Ensign are crossed under the scroll.

The landscape in the chief and the cross in the shield body are a reversal of the coat of arms of Alberta.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Calgary

[Comrade]

Salt Lake has the lamest seal of any city ever known to man. It's unoriginal, bland and totally dated.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Slcseal.jpg

[village person]

Jacksonville, Florida:
http://www.larchejacksonville.org/City%20of%20Jacksonville%20seal.gif
:yuck:

St. Augustine, Florida coat of arms (and official city seal):
http://www.ci.st-augustine.fl.us/commission/images/coat_arms.jpg
Interesting info (http://www.ci.st-augustine.fl.us/commission/coatarms.html)

Cape Girardeau, Missouri:
http://www.kyowa.co.jp/eng/kankyoe/er2003e/images/p35_03.gif

[mczamalek]

Cairo, Egypt
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Kairo_Seal.gif

[Nutterbug]

Vancouver

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Vancouvercoa.jpg

Canadian cities have coats or arms instead. There's something more pretentiously British about them.