"US Patent No. 78312 Swimming Device by A. Biedermann & J. Howald Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its twelve houses engraved with

its twelve houses engraved with the old conviction that a soul's hour of birth was inked somewhere between Aries and Pisces

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2113934 Baseball Glove by Jr Denkert (1938) Filed in the twilight of the dead-ball mitt

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"US Patent No. 78312 Swimming Device by A. Biedermann & J. Howald Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its twelve houses engraved withUs Patent No. 78312 Swimming Device by a Biedermann J Howald February 21 1950 Howald's apparatus belongs to that mid century moment when the backyard pool was becoming an American fixture and inventors raced to teach the country how to float, the schematic charting straps, buoyant panels, and the quiet geometry of a body suspended in water. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark