US Patent No. 2595725 Two Section Foldable Game Table (Ping Pong Table) by Kenneth E Sutton 1952 Paul_Brown_Stadium Portraits of McKinley

Portraits of McKinley

Portrait of John Marshall Holding a Book After a Painting by Henry Inman

her portrait carrying the cultivated polish of a Jacksonian court that styled itself republican while quietly borrowing the manners of European salons

his wife Julia and their children arranged in the careful symmetry of a household being introduced to the republic it would soon occupy

the General laid out among grieving kin while the young nation rehearsed

US Patent No. 2595725 Two Section Foldable Game Table (Ping Pong Table) by Kenneth E Sutton 1952 Paul_Brown_Stadium Portraits of McKinleyUs Patent No. 2595725 Two Section Foldable Game Table (ping Pong Table) by Kenneth E Sutton 1952 Sutton's engineering filing hinges along the centerline like a book closing on a rally, each leg and brace plotted for the postwar rec room where ping pong had migrated from English drawing rooms to American basements. The schematic reads as a quiet bit of domestic choreography a tournament surface that folds itself away when the paddles are put down.