US Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 Old_Walla_Walla_Map 19th Century — a self-rendered

19th Century — a self-rendered account from the rail-splitter turned wartime president

James Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States 1857 — a campaign-era portrait of the Pennsylvania bachelor who inherited a Union already cracking

A selenographer who had mapped the moon crater by crater turned his gaze outward and gave the firmament a pulse

when a stout general in a battered straw hat became the unlikely vessel for Whig ambition and the country's swelling appetite for conquered territory

US Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 Old_Walla_Walla_Map 19th Century — a self-renderedUs Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 a schematic from the barnstorming age, when silk canopies were folded into back worn packs by hand and a jumper's life hung on the geometry of harness straps and ripcord pins. Russell's diagram lays out every flap, grommet, and shroud line with the gravity of a man who knew the apparatus had to open the first time, every time. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from