World Series Chicago city map " rendered in the heavy-browed

" rendered in the heavy-browed gravity nineteenth-century engravers reserved for men who governed by edict and answered to Lincoln alone

as if the cardboard itself knew it was late to the party

a commemorative broadside arranging his plain-spoken counsel into something closer to scripture

when the nation made pilgrimage to the room where the Declaration was signed and tried to remember what it had been fighting over for a hundred years

Abraham Lincoln Savior of His Country 1896 — a posthumous chromolithograph cast in the hagiographic register of the Gilded Age

World Series Chicago city map " rendered in the heavy-browedWorld Series 69b1a a press photograph from October's brightest stage, where the year's last sunlight fell across infield dirt and a championship hung on the next pitch. The grain carries that particular hush of a stadium holding its breath, the kind only a Series crowd knows how to make. 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