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Paul Jones 1792 — a posthumous engraving of the Scottish-born captain whose name the Royal Navy spat and the Continental Congress canonized

the deep-set eyes

dramatic against light walls

gilding the Midway with the iconography of empire

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Honus Wagner Card B253 framed cartographer Paul Jones 1792 — aHonuswagnercard 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