T25 Piedmont Ty Cobb Size:18x24 The lithograph carries that turn-of-the-century

The lithograph carries that turn-of-the-century swagger — equal parts team portrait and conquering banner

drawn with the patience of someone who knew a clogged groove could cost a stroke

when Taft was still climbing the Ohio bench and the Gilded Age machinery of Republican patronage was quietly shaping a career that would touch every branch of American government

Ancient Order of United Workmen Purity Education Elevation of Mankind 1881 — a fraternal chromolithograph rendered in the elaborate symbolic grammar of the Gilded Age lodge hall

T25 Piedmont Ty Cobb Size:18x24 The lithograph carries that turn-of-the-centuryT25 Piedmont Ty Cobb 615f9 a Piedmont backed tobacco card bearing the Georgia Peach himself, his jaw set with that famous, simmering menace as if the lithographer caught him mid glare from the Tigers' dugout. The kind of small, smoke scented relic that traveled in a vest pocket back when a nickel pack of cigarettes carried the face of the most feared man in the American League. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American