Christy Mathewson by Conlon president wall art The schematic details the lacing

The schematic details the lacing and reinforced pocket of a mitt built for catching bare-handed barehanders into a sport still learning to soften its blows

1840 — a campaign lithograph that turns a 1811 frontier skirmish into Whig mythology

1860 — a campaign broadside from the autumn the Union began to fracture

The Kampfe Brothers Razor Brace Patent — Instruments of the Morning Ritual is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

Christy Mathewson by Conlon president wall art The schematic details the lacingChristy Mathewson by Conlon a Charles Conlon press photograph of the Giants' great gentleman pitcher, his fadeaway grip and Polo Grounds composure caught in the silver bromide hush of the deadball era. Conlon's lens always seemed to find the quiet in his subjects, and here Matty looks less like a hurler than a scholar mid thought. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for