US Patent No. 45378 Game Counter by G Deimel May 26 1891 framed lighting Union Drummer Boy John Clem

Union Drummer Boy John Clem at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863

Historical National Masterpiece of Art 1876 arrives in the centennial year

dressing Spanish ambition in the solemn drapery of American memory

The kind of artifact that smells faintly of newsprint and bunting

and gold rush boomtowns scratched into the Yukon's shoulder

US Patent No. 45378 Game Counter by G Deimel May 26 1891 framed lighting Union Drummer Boy John ClemUs Patent No. 45378 Game Counter by G Deimel May 26 1891 Deimel's schematic of rotating dials and numbered wheels belongs to an age when scorekeeping was a mechanical ritual, the click of a thumb lever standing in for paper and pencil. The line drawing reads like a pocket sized adversary to forgetfulness, devised when the parlor and the ballfield alike demanded an honest tally. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American