US Patent No. 32138 Lawn Tennis Net Tightener by CW Jefferson June 16 1885 vintage swimming where steamship manifests and chalked

where steamship manifests and chalked coat-lapels became the first ledger of a new American century

Camp of Reynolds Battery

Pioneers in the Great Religious Reformation of the Nineteenth Century 1885 — a group portrait lithograph assembling the preachers and revivalists who reshaped American faith between camp meeting and cathedral

Camp of the Massachusetts Second Company Light Artillery at Stewart's Place

The lithography is plump and saturated in that confectioner's-counter way

US Patent No. 32138 Lawn Tennis Net Tightener by CW Jefferson June 16 1885 vintage swimming where steamship manifests and chalkedUs Patent No. 32138 Lawn Tennis Net Tightener by Cw Jefferson June 16 1885 Jefferson's schematic belongs to the flannels and garden party era of lawn tennis, when a sagging net could undo a Sunday match, and the apparatus he drew, with its ratcheted tension and patient mechanical logic, treats the sideline post as seriously as any racquet. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office