US Patent No. 25498 Lamp Attachment for Telephone Instruments by A H Pinkerman (1951) Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the banner waves stars and

the banner waves stars and stripes for a Union the candidates could no longer hold together — popular sovereignty stitched onto bunting as the country marched toward Sumter

rendered in Beaux-Arts grandeur for a fair that lit Chicago's lagoons with alternating current and announced that American industry had learned to ornament its own voltage

and the artifacts of American urban memory

before the White House and the Chief Justiceship

US Patent No. 25498 Lamp Attachment for Telephone Instruments by A H Pinkerman (1951) Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the banner waves stars andUs Patent No. 25498 Lamp Attachment for Telephone Instruments by a H Pinkerman (1951) Pinkerman's filing belongs to that postwar moment when the household telephone was still a heavy, shadowed object on a hallway table his schematic clamps a small lamp directly to the handset cradle, illuminating the dial for anyone fumbling a number after dusk. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark