Cracker Jack Ty Cobb large Panama map Abraham Lincoln's Return Home After

Abraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency renders the prairie lawyer's homecoming to Springfield in the brittle hush before secession — a lithograph of triumph already shadowed by the ledgers of recruits and casualties the next four years would demand

the gaze is level

and anyone drawn to Victorian industrial design

The Eastman Pipe Patent — a Gentlemans Vice 189 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

Cracker Jack Ty Cobb large Panama map Abraham Lincoln's Return Home AfterCracker Jack Ty Cobb a 1914 candy issue card pulled from a sticky box of caramel corn, its red background bleeding behind the Georgia Peach in his Tigers flannel. Cobb stares out with the same flat, calculating menace that filed his spikes sharp, a portrait of the deadball era's most feared baserunner reduced to a thin slip of sugared cardboard. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark