US Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 Old_Walla_Walla_Map General Robert Edward Lee 1886

General Robert Edward Lee 1886 — a posthumous commemorative portrait issued more than fifteen years after the surrender at Appomattox

when a stout general in a battered straw hat became the unlikely vessel for Whig ambition and the country's swelling appetite for conquered territory

The Emancipation Proclamation 1863 — Lincoln's executive order rendered in the somber typography of a war measure

James Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States 1857 — a campaign-era portrait of the Pennsylvania bachelor who inherited a Union already cracking

US Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 Old_Walla_Walla_Map General Robert Edward Lee 1886Us Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 a schematic from the barnstorming age, when silk canopies were folded into back worn packs by hand and a jumper's life hung on the geometry of harness straps and ripcord pins. Russell's diagram lays out every flap, grommet, and shroud line with the gravity of a man who knew the apparatus had to open the first time, every time. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from