US Patent No. 143984 Parachute Harness by F Smith January 17 1922 Size:24x18 this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese

this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white-plaster pavilions and electric light — the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival

and the natural patina of a document that has lived for nearly two hundred and fifty years

The lithograph belongs to that quieter chapter of remembrance

The schematic carries the quiet confidence of 1891 fieldcraft — pegged

its halls billeted with Ohio Volunteers in the early spring of occupation — the documentary record of a Tennessee city held by Union arms

US Patent No. 143984 Parachute Harness by F Smith January 17 1922 Size:24x18 this chromolithograph reanimates the GenoeseUs Patent No. 143984 Parachute Harness by F Smith January 17 1922 F. Smith's 1922 schematic maps the straps and buckles of a body about to fall, drawn in the cautious hand of an era when barnstormers were still arguing whether a jumper should trust silk over a wing walk's grip. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings, and from the great American tobacco