US Patent No. 494913 Lawn Tennis Fork by R W Booth (1893) map_of_auburn_ca Bella Frye sources celestial prints

Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th-century astronomical atlases and selenographic studies — the era when astronomy was still natural philosophy

every baluster and cornice rendered in the civic vocabulary of a republic still rebuilding its self-image after the war

and the artifacts of American local memory

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US Patent No. 494913 Lawn Tennis Fork by R W Booth (1893) map_of_auburn_ca Bella Frye sources celestial printsUs Patent No. 494913 Lawn Tennis Fork by R W Booth (1893) Booth's inventor's diagram catches lawn tennis in its flannel and grass infancy, when a gentleman's court demanded a tool to lift sod and pluck stray balls without stooping. The schematic renders the slender shaft and tined head with the patient gravity of a draftsman convinced the genteel game deserved its own implement. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American