Boy messenger in cap riding a bicycle on city street – Vintage Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Boy messenger in cap riding a bicycle on city street, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Boy messenger in cap riding a bicycle on city street
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A young messenger in a peaked cap pedals down a city street, the bicycle serving as his working vehicle rather than a leisure machine. Bicycle messengers were a familiar sight in American cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when telegraph offices, shops, and businesses relied on boys to carry letters, packages, and urgent notes across town faster than horses could manage in crowded traffic. Pictures like this one show how the bicycle reshaped urban work and gave young workers a measure of independence on the streets.
| Original scan | 5,000 × 3,576 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 03935u a typical messenger |
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