Honus Wagner Card B253 framed cartographer A View of the Columbian

A View of the Columbian Exposition 1893 — a chromolithograph of the White City rising along Lake Michigan

the southern continent suddenly within American reach

gilding the Midway with the iconography of empire

The Baltimore Harbor Sentinel Lighthouse Engineering Drawing charts a screw-pile sentinel braced against the brackish churn of the Patapsco — its hexagonal keeper's quarters and cast-iron legs drawn with the patient certainty of an engineer who knew the Chesapeake would test every joint

Honus Wagner Card B253 framed cartographer A View of the ColumbianHonuswagnercard B253 the T206 tobacco card that became American baseball's white whale Honus Wagner in his Pittsburgh flannels, pulled from production almost as soon as it hit the cigarette packs, leaving behind a portrait scarcer than the shortstop's own patience for posing. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings, and from the great American tobacco