Image: Seal of Athol, Massachusetts

Description: Seal of the Town of Athol, Massachusetts, featuring the likeness of Col. John Murray, of Rutland, Massachusetts, who owned considerable land in the town and was among its incorporators. Murray, a Tory, was chased away from the Colony following the revolution and a portrait of him, which now resides in New Brunswick adorns the town iconography today.
Title: Seal of Athol, Massachusetts
Credit: Annual Town Report of Athol, Massachusetts; 1931
Author: Unknown, based on portrait by John Singleton Copley
Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1927 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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