US Patent No. 45349 Tent by JJ Navo May 26 1891 Frame Style:Ebony Frame rendering the everyday hardness of

rendering the everyday hardness of homestead and trail with the unsentimental eye of a witness who knew the West was a ledger

and Beacon Hill's gas lamps glow on linen stock pressed when the harbor still smelled of molasses and tea

signed in a careful hand

and veiled figures arranged in the moralizing grammar of late-century lodge culture

US Patent No. 45349 Tent by JJ Navo May 26 1891 Frame Style:Ebony Frame rendering the everyday hardness ofUs Patent No. 45349 Tent by Jj Navo May 26 1891 J. J. Navo's inventor's diagram unfurls a canvas shelter from the age when sportsmen pitched camp by lantern light, every guy line and ridgepole drawn with the patience of a man who knew a tent had to weather a season of hunts and fishing trips. The schematic carries the quiet confidence of 1891 fieldcraft pegged, taut, and ready for the wilderness. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts