US Patent No. 415884 Baseball by D M Shibe November 26 1889 Framed_Orioles 1881 — a presidential portrait

1881 — a presidential portrait of the New York customs man elevated by Garfield's bullet

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

Camp Patterson Park

A commemorative engraving of the obelisk completed at last after decades of stalled subscription and civil war

long torn between Union loyalty and slaveholding habit

US Patent No. 415884 Baseball by D M Shibe November 26 1889 Framed_Orioles 1881 — a presidential portraitUs Patent No. 415884 Base Ball by D M Shibe November 26 1889 reads like a cross section of the dead ball era itself D. M. Shibe's 1889 filing details the wound yarn core and tightly stitched horsehide cover that pitchers spat on and batters punished, drawn in the patient hand of a man whose name would later grace a Philadelphia ballpark. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office