US Patent No. 1841193 Sport Glove by Thomas Lorimer Lidston (1932) framed sphere art and olive branch held together

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

and the dignity of labor newly armed with a charter

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

ringed by vignettes of Black Americans claiming their place in the republic less than two decades after emancipation

US Patent No. 1841193 Sport Glove by Thomas Lorimer Lidston (1932) framed sphere art and olive branch held togetherUs 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