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Bicycle race, Keating's pier, Daytona Beach, Fla. – Historic Print

Bicycle race, Keating's pier, Daytona Beach, Fla., [between 1880 and 1900] — historic photograph
Bicycle race, Keating's pier, Daytona Beach, Fla., [between 1880 and 1900]. Historic photograph from the Bicycles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Bicycle race, Keating's pier, Daytona Beach, Fla., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Bicycle race, Keating's pier, Daytona Beach, Fla.

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A race on the sand below Keating's pier places this scene on the beach at Daytona Beach, Florida, where the firm, level shore drew cyclists and onlookers in the years before 1900. The bicycle boom of the 1890s brought wheeled racing to resorts across the country, and Daytona's broad beach made it a natural place for such events. Pictures like this one show how the pier and the open sand combined into a single seaside amusement. Look at how the wooden structure and the wide beach frame the riders.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1900.
NotesNo. 228
SubjectsBicycle racing--Florida--Daytona Beach--1880-1900. Piers & wharves--Florida--Daytona Beach--1880-1900. Beaches--Florida--Daytona Beach--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,044 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-164786

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