US Patent No. 119427 Cap Design by GJ Kromer Jr (1916) architect_poster the spires of Trinity and

the spires of Trinity and the early towers of Wall Street rising behind like the counting-house cathedrals of a republic still tallying its fortune

his likeness drawn from the years when temperance pieties and Indian Removal debates shared the same Senate floor

rendered in the dignified manner reserved for men whose fortunes shaped textile mills and library endowments alike

A campaign portrait of the Bluegrass abolitionist at his most combative — the slaveholding South's apostate son rendered as Liberty's standard-bearer in the year his True American press in Lexington was dismantled by his own neighbors

John Brown 19th Century — the abolitionist rendered with the severe gaze of a man already convinced that the republic's sin would only be answered in blood

US Patent No. 119427 Cap Design by GJ Kromer Jr (1916) architect_poster the spires of Trinity andUs Patent No. 119427 Cap Design by Gj Kromer Jr (1916) G. J. Kromer Jr.'s 1916 design filing maps the soft crown and segmented panels of the ballcap just as it was settling into its modern silhouette the dead ball era's wool six panel rendered in the patient lines of a draftsman who understood that a cap is a player's only signature on the field. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark