1911 Big Game Ticket Framed_Cubs with cannon and column

with cannon and column

and bishops arrayed in the careful documentary engraving of a faith insisting on its own ledger of memory

his eighty-day deathwatch a national vigil rendered here in the solemn iconography the Gilded Age reserved for its martyrs

every yardarm manned and every gun thundering its ceremonial reply

1911 Big Game Ticket Framed_Cubs with cannon and columnTicket 1911 Big Game a ticket stub from an era when admission was printed on heavy stock and torn by gloved hands at the turnstile, the words "Big Game" carrying the weight of a rivalry settled in autumn mud and wool jerseys. It survives the way ephemera rarely does: creased, faintly foxed, still holding the ceremony of a Saturday that mattered. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark