The Great Seal of the State of Kansas

by Movie Poster Prints

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The Great Seal of the State of Kansas

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Movie Poster Prints

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Photograph - Digital Art

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The Great Seal of the State of Kansas tells the history of Kansas.
The seal contains:
� Landscape with a rising sun (the east)
� River and steamboat (commerce)
� Settler's cabin and a man plowing a field (agriculture) [foreground]
� Wagon train heading west (American expansion / pioneer life)
� Indians hunting American Bison (the buffalo are fleeing from the Indians)
� Cluster of 34 stars (top of the seal) � identifying Kansas as the 34th state to be accepted into the Union of the United States.
� State motto "Ad Astra per Aspera" (Latin: "To the Stars through Difficulties")
The seal is used on the Flag of the State of Kansas.

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March 29th, 2014

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