Designed and manufactured by Colt’s Patent Firearm Manufacturing Co. in Hartford, Connecticut c.1849-60′s – serial number 50613. .31 cap and ball 5-shot cylinder, 6″ barrel, walnut grip, cased with ogival bullets, a powder flask, a box of percussion cap, a bullet casting tool and what might be a nipple wrench. The Pocket model was a significantly sized-down Dragoon revolver with a few ergonomic improvements. While the Dragoon was a saddle holster revolver just big enough to not explode on firing, the Pocket model was a short-range self defense pistol made to be kept in your coat’s pocket.
1898 05 12 San Juan, Puerto Rico – USS Terror – Paul Wright
It shows the monitor USS Terror close to shore, shelling the San Juan fortification of Castillo San Felipe del Morro and coming under return fire from Spanish coastal artillery.
Edward Steichen – Vanity Fair 1924 Actress Rose Rolando wearing a costume, and posed standing with one arm raised above her head and the other resting on her hip .Conde Nast via Getty Images
