US Patent No. 2142527 Lacrosse Racket by R.B. Pool (1939) oakland_canvas mourning a poet whose cadences

mourning a poet whose cadences had crossed the Atlantic long before his death

shifting bottom — screw-pile footings splayed across the page like spider legs

number 149 in the set that turned bubble gum into a cathedral for the Bambino

1868 — a domestic lithograph staged in the year the general traded epaulets for the presidency

where the mobile cannon he had drilled into doctrine outlived him by an afternoon

US Patent No. 2142527 Lacrosse Racket by R.B. Pool (1939) oakland_canvas mourning a poet whose cadencesUs Patent No. 2142527 Lacrosse Racket by Rb Pool (1939) R. B. Pool's engineering filing arrives at a moment when lacrosse sticks were still bent ash and gut lacing yet the schematic shows a shaft braced and reinforced for the modern game, every cross thong and rib plotted with the precision of a man trying to civilize a stick the Iroquois had been perfecting for centuries. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the