United States Patent No. 23896 Cross Bow by C Sanftleben H Russel Patented August 1 1859 Size:24x18 lifeboats foundering in the middle

lifeboats foundering in the middle distance — a Currier print that made the catastrophe a household horror

Birds Eye View of Camp Chase Near Columbus Ohio 1860s — a documentary engraving rendered from above

the engraver's burin softening a defeated commander into the marble vocabulary of Lost Cause remembrance just as Reconstruction itself was being quietly dismantled

Hemingway's shaded verandas

Washington Monument 1844 renders the obelisk in its earliest ambition

United States Patent No. 23896 Cross Bow by C Sanftleben H Russel Patented August 1 1859 Size:24x18 lifeboats foundering in the middleUnited States Patent No. 23896 Cross Bow by C Sanftleben H Russel Patented August 1 1859 Sanftleben and Russel's inventor's diagram catches the crossbow at a curious American moment, when a medieval weapon was being re engineered for parlor sport and target ranges, its trigger mechanism and stirrup rendered with the fastidious mechanical logic of a rifle patent. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S.