Image of a poster advertising Goodrich Tires and depicting a cowboy riding a modern-styled safety bicycle while throwing a lasso, with two steers running over a green hillside in the background. Probable date approximated by cataloger based on date of similar advertisement. "The Werner Company, Akron, O."--text, bottom right of image. "Manufactured by the B.F. Goodrich Co Akron Rubber Works Akron, Ohio."--text, bottom center of image. "The Columbia Rubber Works Co., Selling Agents, New York, 66 Reade St. Chicago, 159 Lake St."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 82.23 x 59.69 cm (32 3/8 x 23 1/2 in.)
Advertising--Bicycle industry Advertising--Tires Bicycles and bicycling--Pictorial works Cowboys--Pictorial works Rubber industry and trade Tire industry Transportation equipment industry B.F. Goodrich Company Columbia Rubber Works Company Akron Rubber Works Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Posters. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Bicycle The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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