US Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 Old_Walla_Walla_Map capturing the moment the ironclad

capturing the moment the ironclad CSS Virginia — the Confederacy's reborn Merrimac — was scuttled and set ablaze off Craney Island rather than surrendered to Union hands

James Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States 1857 — a campaign-era portrait of the Pennsylvania bachelor who inherited a Union already cracking

A selenographer who had mapped the moon crater by crater turned his gaze outward and gave the firmament a pulse

The heavens

The cover art carries the swagger of a league that played brilliant ball in the long shadow of segregation

US Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 Old_Walla_Walla_Map capturing the moment the ironcladUs Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 a schematic from the barnstorming age, when silk canopies were folded into back worn packs by hand and a jumper's life hung on the geometry of harness straps and ripcord pins. Russell's diagram lays out every flap, grommet, and shroud line with the gravity of a man who knew the apparatus had to open the first time, every time. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from