Cracker Jack Honus Wagner Frame Style:Verdigris Frame drawn in the patient hand

drawn in the patient hand of a draftsman who understood that a hull's sheer line

an 1894 engraving issued nearly three decades past Ford's Theatre

its printed face still carrying the gravity of an inter-service rivalry played at the height of college football's golden age

made him the Union's first martyr and turned a recruiting officer's portrait into a relic of grief

A late-century commemorative portrait of the man who mustered Iowa's regiments into the Union ranks — issued thirty years after the guns fell silent

Cracker Jack Honus Wagner Frame Style:Verdigris Frame drawn in the patient handCracker Jack Honus Wagner a 1914 caramel stained insert pulled from a box of molasses popcorn, the Flying Dutchman caught mid crouch in the lithographed red of a Pittsburgh afternoon. Wagner always was the harder pull, the shortstop who refused tobacco and somehow became the holy grail of cardboard anyway. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings, and from