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Title
S. C. Spier and his bicycle
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1886
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
Photograph used for the reunion held on November 10, 1932.
This photo, which was taken in 1886, shows S. C. Spier and his lofty bicycle which he pedaled from New York to San Francisco in a mere 84 days. He has been invited to the reunion, at which Tracy Q. Hall, Los Angeles banker, who was a leading cyclist in the '90s, will be chairman of the gathering.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00054217
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Sports-Cycling; N-004-326 8x10
CARL0000059480
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/103914
Subject
Bicycles
Cyclists
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1881-1890

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