US Patent No. 119427 Cap Design by GJ Kromer Jr (1916) Atlantic_City_Map dressing Spanish ambition in the

dressing Spanish ambition in the solemn drapery of American memory

every plank stiffened by trust-busting

its twelve houses engraved with the old conviction that a soul's hour of birth was inked somewhere between Aries and Pisces

unsmiling stare into the early century's collective memory

Sixteenth President of the United States

US Patent No. 119427 Cap Design by GJ Kromer Jr (1916) Atlantic_City_Map dressing Spanish ambition in theUs Patent No. 119427 Cap Design by Gj Kromer Jr (1916) G. J. Kromer Jr.'s 1916 design filing maps the soft crown and segmented panels of the ballcap just as it was settling into its modern silhouette the dead ball era's wool six panel rendered in the patient lines of a draftsman who understood that a cap is a player's only signature on the field. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark