5 Men 1916 pennsylvania card where Giants fans once climbed

where Giants fans once climbed the rocks above Eighth Avenue to watch McGraw's nine for free — a Harlem ballyard rendered in the reverent tones owed to a true civic shrine

and Art Deco façades that the linen-era printers rendered with almost tropical exaggeration

where commerce wore the face of civic duty

while the scars of Sumter still smoldered just offshore

5 Men 1916 pennsylvania card where Giants fans once climbed5 Men 1916 a press photograph of five figures squared to the lens on the eve of mobilization, their stillness carrying the particular weight of a republic about to be conscripted into a war it had spent three years watching from across the Atlantic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers