Joe Jackson Fort Porter early century art the way a printer's stone

the way a printer's stone remembers a sport played in wool flannels and cigar smoke

the day after Christmas

The image carries the careful dignity of a man who would rather be Chief Justice than President

the hero of the Asiatic Squadron sits for posterity in full naval braid — the steady-eyed portrait of an officer who turned a single dawn engagement into the founding myth of American sea power

Joe Jackson Fort Porter early century art the way a printer's stoneJoe Jackson Fort Porter a portrait of Shoeless Joe in the flannels of a minor league outpost, captured before the Black Sox shadow fell across his name. There's an unguarded ease in the pose, the kind a young hitter wears when the swing still belongs to him alone. 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 card and