United States Patent No. 1458672 Ball Design by C.C. Witmer Et Al Filed November 17 1921 arkansas wall art when prizefighting was still half-outlawed

when prizefighting was still half-outlawed and the padded mitt was being engineered into respectability

Nadaf a name that surfaces from the margins of the early game

Wilson Lumpkin Governor of Georgia 1838 — a portrait of the man whose hand guided Cherokee removal into law

Captain Wilkes 1862 — a portrait of the Union officer whose seizure of Confederate envoys from the British mail packet Trent the previous November had nearly dragged Lincoln's beleaguered republic into a second war

President Lincoln and Secretary Seward Signing the Proclamation of Freedom

United States Patent No. 1458672 Ball Design by C.C. Witmer Et Al Filed November 17 1921 arkansas wall art when prizefighting was still half-outlawedUnited States Patent No. 1458672 Ball Design by Cc Witmer Et Al Filed November 17 1921 Witmer's filing maps the curving seams of a football in the years when the ball was still a fat, rounded thing meant for drop kicks and rugby style scrums. The schematic traces each panel and stitch line with the patience of a man who knew the pigskin's shape was about to change the game itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American