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In 1893 historian Leonid Arbuzov published the oldest known picture of the Jelgava town emblem found on a sealed document from 1589. In 1914 Jelgava Town Mayor Gustavs Smits published an article on the development of the emblem in the 19th century but historian Arveds Svabe was the first to provide information on the town charter received by Jelgava in 1753 and an engraving of the town seal in 1574...
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