US Patent No. 626353 Glove by JA Vogan June 6 1899 Virginia_Old_Map an Independence Day christening of

an Independence Day christening of steel and ambition that announced the river city's resurrection nine years after Appomattox

A nocturne for a future that never quite arrived

drawn in the hush between ambition and second thought

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois Andrew Johnson of Tennessee 1864 — the National Union ticket rendered in campaign lithography

the Brooklyn Bridge strung like a harp over the East River

US Patent No. 626353 Glove by JA Vogan June 6 1899 Virginia_Old_Map an Independence Day christening ofUs Patent No. 626353 Glove by Ja Vogan June 6 1899 J. A. Vogan's diagram belongs to the dead ball era, when a fielder's glove was little more than a padded palm with stubby, unwebbed fingers. The schematic details the lacing and reinforced pocket of a mitt built for catching bare handed barehanders into a sport still learning to soften its blows. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark