US Patent No. 69791 Fishing Gear by Albert W Wilson April 15 1868 framed declaration Lincoln and Hamlin 1861 —

Lincoln and Hamlin 1861 — a campaign portrait of the Republican ticket on the very threshold of secession

In Honor of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia and Its Commanders and the One Hundredth Year — a centennial tribute drawn in the long shadow of the late war

There's an unguarded ease in the pose

its first-order Fresnel apparatus and keeper's quarters platted with the patience of men who knew this stretch of Pacific had already swallowed the names carved into its charts

Patterson Park's tents pitched on Baltimore soil where loyalty itself was a contested matter and a New York colonel's name held the line in ink

US Patent No. 69791 Fishing Gear by Albert W Wilson April 15 1868 framed declaration Lincoln and Hamlin 1861 —Us Patent No. 69791 Fishing Gear by Albert W Wilson April 15 192 Albert W. Wilson's 1868 inventor's diagram belongs to the brass and gut age of American angling, when a reel was a small mechanical promise to outwit a trout. The schematic details every pawl, spindle, and tensioning arm with the patience of a man who had clearly lost fish to lesser machinery. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent