United States Patent No. 96574 Billiard Cue Powderer by Harry Nahm Pittsburgh_Print Lincoln as Boy 1914 —

Lincoln as Boy 1914 — a 1914 backward glance at the rail-splitter before the railsplitting

already reaching past vengeance toward a reconciliation he would not live to see

when the Union's surviving generals had hardened into bronze and lithographic ink

The Confederate general rendered in the careful gravity of postwar portraiture — a soldier who fought Sherman across Georgia and surrendered the second great rebel army at Bennett Place

United States Patent No. 96574 Billiard Cue Powderer by Harry Nahm Pittsburgh_Print Lincoln as Boy 1914 —United States Patent No. 96574 Billiard Cue Powderer by Harry Nahm (191) Harry Nahm's 1869 schematic belongs to the gaslit billiard hall, where ivory balls clicked beneath green shades and a gentleman's cue tip required chalk and powder in equal measure. The apparatus reads like a small ceremony of the game a chambered dispenser drafted with the gravity of a sport that took its rituals seriously. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts