Vintage Historic Official Seal of the City and County of San Francisco Metal Print

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This is the historic official seal of the City and County of San Francisco, California. This seal was designed in 1900. The man to the left of the shield is a gold miner of the mid nineteenth century California Gold Rush period. The man on the right holds a mariner's compass while the central motif inside the shield appears to be early navigational explorer's sailing ships in the Golden Gate of San Francisco Bay.
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 km2), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I have been a visual artist since the 1960s. I'm originally from Orange County, New York, located in the Metro New York City region where I was raised on the working dairy farm [Ogden Farm] which my family founded in 1832. As a young man I spent many long hours working in gardens, crop fields, pastures and in barns with livestock. I grew up surrounded by antiques. I graduated from Bucknell University where I majored in art which included a semester in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. After Bucknell I studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I have lived throughout the U.S. [including three years in Sante Fe, New Mexico], in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America. I now reside in the 19th century...