World Series Chicago city map 1864 — the campaign chromolithograph

1864 — the campaign chromolithograph for McClellan and Pendleton

a commemorative broadside arranging his plain-spoken counsel into something closer to scripture

" rendered in the heavy-browed gravity nineteenth-century engravers reserved for men who governed by edict and answered to Lincoln alone

Abraham Lincoln 1877 arrives a dozen years after Ford's Theatre

The Publicans Precision Patent Blueprint for the Perfect Pour is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

World Series Chicago city map 1864 — the campaign chromolithographWorld Series 69b1a a press photograph from October's brightest stage, where the year's last sunlight fell across infield dirt and a championship hung on the next pitch. The grain carries that particular hush of a stadium holding its breath, the kind only a Series crowd knows how to make. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings, and from the great American