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English: Seal of the City of New Bedford, Massachusetts, featuring a bay scene of the city with the Latin motto Lucem Diffundo, translated as "I Diffuse Light"
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Source 1890 New Bedford City Directory
Author Simtropolitan, original designer unknown
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