US Patent No. 1841193 Sport Glove by Thomas Lorimer Lidston (1932) framed sphere art and the dignity of labor

and the dignity of labor newly armed with a charter

A Nation's Pride

Alford Q Collins 1897 — a studio portrait fixed in the late Gilded Age

A portrait of the wartime president rendered in the grave register reserved for men who carried a sundering nation on their shoulders — the long face

US Patent No. 1841193 Sport Glove by Thomas Lorimer Lidston (1932) framed sphere art and the dignity of laborUs Patent No. 1841193 Sport Glove by Thomas Lorimer Lidston (1932) Lidston's 1932 inventor's diagram maps a padded gauntlet from a Depression era moment when boxers, ballplayers, and handballers all needed something between knuckle and impact the schematic detailing reinforced palm panels and segmented finger stalls with the patience of a man who'd clearly felt a bad seam at the wrong second. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from