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Title
Los Angeles Bicycle Club, ca.1898
Creator
Puck-Gates
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1898
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 group portrait of 8 Los Angeles Bicycle Club riders with high-wheel bicycles, ca.1898. Some riders appear to be wearing club uniform. Known as the "Los Angeles Wheelman Club and formed in the summer of 1882, pictured members are: George Haskell, John Blake, Charles Wedgewood of Covina, Herman Hinch, James Lancaster, Maurice S. Hellman (front left), F.E. Meyer, Charles Serrot. Trees are visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8501
USC-1-1-1-8637 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4002
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8501
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4002.jpg
Subject
Bicyclers
Clubs
Bicycles
L.A. Bicycle Club
Recreation--Bicycling
Transportation features
Time Period
circa 1898
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-54- [Microfiche number]
4002 [Accession number]
CHS-4002 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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