US Patent No. 125326 Protecting Pad for Armor by David Levinson (1918) Frame Style:Ebony Frame A mid-century rendering of Missouri's

A mid-century rendering of Missouri's capital perched above its river bluff

plotting traction studs across the forefoot and heel in an era when Lombardi's Packers were grinding frozen turf and a shoe's bite could decide a Sunday

the click of a thumb-lever standing in for paper and pencil

Around the Globe with the United States Atlantic Fleet - Vintage Maritime Print chronicles Roosevelt's Great White Fleet on its 1907 world cruise — sixteen battleships rendered hull-to-hull in a chromolithograph that swells with the bravado of a young empire announcing itself by smokestack and signal flag

paddlewheelers churning the brown river at Vicksburg

US Patent No. 125326 Protecting Pad for Armor by David Levinson (1918) Frame Style:Ebony Frame A mid-century rendering of Missouri'sUs Patent No. 125326 Protecting Pad for Armor by David Levinson (1918) drafted in the closing months of the Great War, Levinson's patent drawing maps a quilted cuirass of segmented padding an inventor's answer to an era when football armor was still being borrowed from the battlefield, and the line between athlete and infantryman had not yet been drawn. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and