Service Pnp Bbc 9 93 934fv Colts_Wall_Art Belongs in a barber school

Belongs in a barber school

and mornings-after that Americans kept telling themselves about long after the smoke cleared

rendered with the swaggering certainty of a republic convinced its road to Mexico City was also the road to its destiny

and bishops arrayed in the careful documentary engraving of a faith insisting on its own ledger of memory

1898 renders the morning Admiral Sampson's squadron threw shellfire at the Spanish harbor fortifications — a documentary engraving of empire announcing itself in cordite

Service Pnp Bbc 9 93 934fv Colts_Wall_Art Belongs in a barber schoolService Pnp Bbc 9 93 934fv a Library of Congress press photograph pulled from the Bain News Service archive, the kind of glass plate negative that fixed early 20th century ballplayers in mid stride and flannel shadow. There's a quiet gravity to these frames the dead ball era preserved not in box scores, but in the steady gaze of men who played for cigar money and civic pride. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives