Image of a young woman, wearing bloomers, riding a modern-styled safety bicycle and holding a sign reading "Goodrich 999 Tecumseh," with a man in a bowler hat and small dog in the background looking on. Probable date based on reference to poster in Overland Monthly magazine, July 1896, page 50. "The Henderson Lith. Co. Cincinnati"--text, bottom center margin. "W.A. Clarke"--text, artist's signature in stone, below bicycle chain in lower center of image. "Manufactured by the B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron, O."--text, bottom center of image. "Akron Rubber Works"--text, bottom left of poster. "The Columbia Rubber Works Co. Selling Agents New York, 66 Reade, St. Chicago, 159 Lake, St."--text, bottom right of poster.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 82.55 x 60.96 cm (32 1/2 x 24 in.)
Advertising--Bicycle industry Advertising--Tires Bicycles and bicycling--Pictorial works Rubber industry and trade Tire industry Transportation equipment industry Women--Pictorial works 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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