US Patent No. 586713 Bow by HC Peters July 2 1897 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The drawing reads like a

The drawing reads like a quiet argument in stone: that a young nation could shoulder the Atlantic if it built tall enough

with the war's smoke barely cleared from the gallery

and twin smokestacks pluming against a sky meant to flatter every passenger who could afford a stateroom

its clauses recast for a generation tasked with remembering what their fathers had won

Sept 22nd 1846

US Patent No. 586713 Bow by HC Peters July 2 1897 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The drawing reads like aUs Patent No. 586713 Bow by Hc Peters July 2 1897 H. C. Peters' inventor's diagram traces the limbs and grip of an archer's bow at the close of the nineteenth century, when target archery still moved in the gentlemanly cadence of lawn meets and the line drawing carried the quiet authority of a tillered stave understood by hand. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for