Lou Gehrig Goudey Card Law Office Decor his Mexican War laurels burnished

his Mexican War laurels burnished into the iconography of a Union already cracking beneath the rhetoric of compromise

and Rainier hovering pale beyond the Sound

where picnicking spectators learned what McDowell's green regiments learned under Beauregard's guns: that this would not be a summer's quarrel

the other warning what it would cost to keep it whole as the slavery question began its slow boil toward fracture

The Clockwork Heavens — Reynolds' Transparent Solar System — a Victorian astronomical lithograph in which Reynolds rendered the orrery as devotional object

Lou Gehrig Goudey Card Law Office Decor his Mexican War laurels burnishedLougehriggoudeycard a 1930s Goudey gum card bearing the Iron Horse himself, his Yankee pinstripes rendered in that unmistakable confectioner's palette of cobalt and butter yellow. Lou Gehrig smiles out from the cardboard with the quiet steadiness of a man who hadn't yet learned what his own name would come to mean. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings,