"US Patent No. 78312 Swimming Device by A. Biedermann & J. Howald Frame Style:Canvas Wrap when the House floor rang

when the House floor rang with tariff quarrels and the slow-burning question of the territories — a likeness rendered with the studied composure expected of a Southern gentleman addressing the nation

Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 — a posthumous portrait of the Supreme Court Justice whose dissent in Dred Scott broke ranks and whose name was thereafter spoken with the weight of a man who chose conscience over comity

its twelve houses engraved with the old conviction that a soul's hour of birth was inked somewhere between Aries and Pisces

Albany NY 1888 — a Gilded Age civic offering in bronze and granite

A rendering of cloistered ambition

"US Patent No. 78312 Swimming Device by A. Biedermann & J. Howald Frame Style:Canvas Wrap when the House floor rangUs Patent No. 78312 Swimming Device by a Biedermann J Howald February 21 1950 Howald's apparatus belongs to that mid century moment when the backyard pool was becoming an American fixture and inventors raced to teach the country how to float, the schematic charting straps, buoyant panels, and the quiet geometry of a body suspended in water. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark