US Patent No. 1841193 Sport Glove by Thomas Lorimer Lidston (1932) framed sphere art Alford Q Collins 1897 —

Alford Q Collins 1897 — a studio portrait fixed in the late Gilded Age

and olive branch held together on paper while the country itself was held together by ledgers of recruits and the long arithmetic of war

Assault on Fort Sanders 1863 renders Longstreet's doomed November charge at Knoxville as a tangle of telegraph wire and frozen ditch

A bird's-eye lithograph in the civic idiom of the late Gilded Age — every church spire and rail siding accounted for

The Smoldering Innovation — De Shons Cigarette Tip Patent 1929 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

US Patent No. 1841193 Sport Glove by Thomas Lorimer Lidston (1932) framed sphere art Alford Q Collins 1897 —Us Patent No. 1841193 Sport Glove by Thomas Lorimer Lidston (1932) Lidston's 1932 inventor's diagram maps a padded gauntlet from a Depression era moment when boxers, ballplayers, and handballers all needed something between knuckle and impact the schematic detailing reinforced palm panels and segmented finger stalls with the patience of a man who'd clearly felt a bad seam at the wrong second. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from