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Title
Cycling excursion
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1893
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Members of the Los Angeles Wheelmen pose during an around the world cycling excursion, which started in England in 1890. Here the men had just acquired new bicycles with pneumatic tires and were heading east to New York from Los Angeles. Identified are Thomas G(askell) Allen (on the left) and William L(ewis) Sachtleben, both wearing large hats and with bundles strapped to their handlebars.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00054232
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Sports-Cycling; S-004-690 4x5
CARL0000059495
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/103931
Subject
Cyclists--California--Los Angeles
Bicycles--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1891-1900

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