Souvenir Square USA 1912 vintage_Eureka_map General Robert Edward Lee 1886

General Robert Edward Lee 1886 — a posthumous commemorative portrait issued more than fifteen years after the surrender at Appomattox

cataloged in linen and lithographed postcards from the era when civic gardens were a city's quiet pride

recalls a season when umpires worked alone behind the plate in waistcoats and bowlers

George Dewey 1899 — the Hero of Manila Bay rendered the year after his squadron's guns silenced the Spanish fleet

every baluster and cornice rendered in the civic vocabulary of a republic still rebuilding its self-image after the war

Souvenir Square USA 1912 vintage_Eureka_map General Robert Edward Lee 1886Souvenir Square Usa 1912 Ch 185475 2 2 a 1912 souvenir square from the dead ball era, when ballparks smelled of cigar smoke and printer's ink, and a small lithographed keepsake was the closest most fans came to carrying the diamond home. The square format and modest scale mark it as the sort of pocket trophy slipped between scorecard pages and forgotten for a century. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U.