US Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 Old_Walla_Walla_Map 19th Century — a self-rendered

19th Century — a self-rendered account from the rail-splitter turned wartime president

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

capturing the moment the ironclad CSS Virginia — the Confederacy's reborn Merrimac — was scuttled and set ablaze off Craney Island rather than surrendered to Union hands

US Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 Old_Walla_Walla_Map 19th Century — a self-renderedUs Patent No. 362767 Parachute Pack by JM Russell Filed June 18 1924 a schematic from the barnstorming age, when silk canopies were folded into back worn packs by hand and a jumper's life hung on the geometry of harness straps and ripcord pins. Russell's diagram lays out every flap, grommet, and shroud line with the gravity of a man who knew the apparatus had to open the first time, every time. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from