English: Seal of the City of
Providence, Rhode Island, featuring the likeness of
Roger Williams landing at
Slate Rock and being greeted by a group of
Narragansett people. The city motto "What cheer?", is said to be derived from the line "What cheer, netop?", "netop" being a Narragansett word for friend. In effect this line basically translates to "what cheer[y news have you brought] friend?".
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the
copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse Although the source given here is from 2006, the current design of the seal has existed since the nineteenth century, with originals seen in reports from
1863,
1865, and
1878. The very earliest iteration of this seal with the same concept but different rendering appears in
1845.
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