Cracker Jack Ty Cobb large Panama map the gaze is level

the gaze is level

its branches and powers diagrammed like the schematic of a machine that had just survived being torn apart and was now being explained back to itself

Charge of the 24th and 25th Colored Infantry and Rescue of Rough Riders at San Juan — a chromolithograph that hands the San Juan Heights back to the Black regulars who actually carried them

every baluster and cornice rendered in the civic vocabulary of a republic still rebuilding its self-image after the war

Abraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency renders the prairie lawyer's homecoming to Springfield in the brittle hush before secession — a lithograph of triumph already shadowed by the ledgers of recruits and casualties the next four years would demand

Cracker Jack Ty Cobb large Panama map the gaze is levelCracker Jack Ty Cobb a 1914 candy issue card pulled from a sticky box of caramel corn, its red background bleeding behind the Georgia Peach in his Tigers flannel. Cobb stares out with the same flat, calculating menace that filed his spikes sharp, a portrait of the deadball era's most feared baserunner reduced to a thin slip of sugared cardboard. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark