General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 1458672 Ball Design by Cc

1458672 Ball Design by Cc Witmer Et Al Filed November 17 1921 — Witmer's filing maps the curving seams of a football in the years when the ball was still a fat

Cockspur Island

The Celestial Shadow Mechanics Victorian Eclipse Diagram charts the geometry of occultation with the gravitas of a theological proof — umbra and penumbra traced in the patient hand of an astronomer who believed the moon's transit across the sun was less an event than a sentence spoken in the old grammar of the firmament

Attack of the Gun Boats on San Juan de Ulloa - Vintage Maritime Print renders the 1838 Pastry War in full chromolithographic fury — French gunboats wreathed in smoke

General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 1458672 Ball Design by CcGeneral John Alexander Logan Family 1887 a domestic portrait of the Union general and Illinois senator gathered with his kin the year after his death, the fierce architect of Memorial Day softened here into patriarch, the household composed in that particular Gilded Age stillness reserved for men whose public lives had just become memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,