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President Theodore Roosevelt's son had been injured at Harvard. Colleges across the country were abolishing the sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe choice was simple: fix the game or lose it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened in that meeting would reshape American sports forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis letterhead is dated May 18th, 1897 — eight years before that December afternoon. Presidents stayed here. Mark Twain stayed here. And the eight-story facade engraved on this letterhead, with its confident Park Avenue address and ornate Gilded Age typography, had no idea what was coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis letterhead survived.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe art is not inspired by history. It is history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery image in The Ephemera Collective began as a real artifact. This one was created by a master engraver over 125 years ago, long before computers or any digital tools, at a time when the main instruments of design were a skilled hand, a steel plate, and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach piece is sourced from private collections and public archives, scanned at high resolution, and restored by hand to museum print standards. Pulled from the archive, not conjured from a prompt. What you're hanging on your wall is a faithful reproduction of something that actually existed — and in most cases, something most people will never see in any other form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story doesn't stop at the frame\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery print ships with a companion postcard. 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