United States Patent No. 1458672 Ball Design by C.C. Witmer Et Al Filed November 17 1921 arkansas wall art US Shield of Honor 19th

US Shield of Honor 19th Century — a heraldic chromolithograph in the patriotic vernacular of the period

plotting traction studs across the forefoot and heel in an era when Lombardi's Packers were grinding frozen turf and a shoe's bite could decide a Sunday

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

The aged paper tone and the hand-pulled chromolithographic color are preserved in the print

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

United States Patent No. 1458672 Ball Design by C.C. Witmer Et Al Filed November 17 1921 arkansas wall art US Shield of Honor 19thUnited 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