US Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 195 washington coast General Lewis Cass 1846

General Lewis Cass 1846

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century — a portrait of the wartime president rendered in the grave register of his age

The Celestial Shadow Mechanics Victorian Eclipse Diagram charts the geometry of occultation with the gravitas of a theological proof — umbra and penumbra traced in the patient hand of an astronomer who believed the moon's transit across the sun was less an event than a sentence spoken in the old grammar of the firmament

drafted in a year when skin diving was still the province of spearfishermen and Navy frogmen learning to disappear below the surface

The Barbers Implement Patent of 1899 belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

US Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 195 washington coast General Lewis Cass 1846US Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 1950 Roessner's filing diagrams the humble ballplayer's trousers with the seriousness of a tailor's commission, charting reinforced seams and sliding panels for an era when infielders hit the basepaths in heavy flannel and came up grass stained from the hip. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark