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the Maine still smoldering in the national memory as the republic discovered it had a taste for distant harbors

The men stand shoulder to shoulder in flannel and stirrups

Looking SSW — a documentary view of canvas rows pitched in a city park

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1914 — a commemorative portrait issued decades after the poet's death

the plainspoken cadence of a man who wrote his own beginnings before the country wrote his ending

Cleveland Spiders Baseball Team Camera_Drawing the Maine still smoldering inCleveland Spiders Baseball Team 28b997 a team portrait of the doomed 1890s National League club whose name still carries the weight of baseball's worst season, the men arranged in their wool flannels with the stoic posture of ballplayers who did not yet know history would remember them as a cautionary tale rather than a roster. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for