US Patent No. 582535 Bridle Bit by G W Le Compte May 11 1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Dunn Field 192 Cp2471 Dpla

Dunn Field 192 Cp2471 Dpla — a press photograph of the Cleveland ballpark in its brief life as Dunn Field

By 1897 the frontier was already declared closed

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US Patent No. 582535 Bridle Bit by G W Le Compte May 11 1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Dunn Field 192 Cp2471 DplaUs Patent No. 582535 Bridle Bit by G W Le Compte May 11 1897 Le Compte's inventor's diagram details the mouthpiece and shanks with the quiet precision of a horseman who knew exactly how a rein's pressure travels through steel, filed in an era when the carriage horse and the saddle bred still ruled American roads. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings,