US Patent No. 45349 Tent by JJ Navo May 26 1891 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and veiled figures arranged in

and veiled figures arranged in the moralizing grammar of late-century lodge culture

signed in a careful hand

1896 preserves the thunderclap that vaulted William Jennings Bryan onto the Democratic ticket — the Cross of Gold oration set in cold type

the long shadow of the war still falling across every official likeness of the Republic's nineteenth president

US Patent No. 45349 Tent by JJ Navo May 26 1891 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and veiled figures arranged inUs Patent No. 45349 Tent by Jj Navo May 26 1891 J. J. Navo's inventor's diagram unfurls a canvas shelter from the age when sportsmen pitched camp by lantern light, every guy line and ridgepole drawn with the patience of a man who knew a tent had to weather a season of hunts and fishing trips. The schematic carries the quiet confidence of 1891 fieldcraft pegged, taut, and ready for the wilderness. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts