Joe Jackson Fort Porter early century art Lee at the center

Lee at the center

this commemorative portrait belongs to the Lost Cause's long second act — Lee rendered not as defeated general but as marble saint

the day after Christmas

A mourning lithograph from the funeral train's slow midwestern passage

the way a printer's stone remembers a sport played in wool flannels and cigar smoke

Joe Jackson Fort Porter early century art Lee at the centerJoe Jackson Fort Porter a portrait of Shoeless Joe in the flannels of a minor league outpost, captured before the Black Sox shadow fell across his name. There's an unguarded ease in the pose, the kind a young hitter wears when the swing still belongs to him alone. 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 tobacco card and