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Title
Couple on a bicycle built for two, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a couple on a bicycle built for two, ca.1900. A woman dressed in a darkly colored formal Victorian style dress sits to the right on the front of a bicycle with two seats. A man wearing a darkly colored suit and bowler hat sits on the back as he supports the bicycle with his left foot. The woman holds onto the handle bars and places both feet on the pedals. The couple smiles at the camera while a sidewalk and stone building are visible behind them. One of the partially obscured stones behind the woman reads ..."field"[?]....
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10876
USC-0-1-1-11027 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-42612
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10876
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-42612.jpg
Subject
Bicycles
Bicyclers
Recreation--Bicycling
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
42612 [Accession number]
CHS-42612 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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