L.A.W. Bicycle Race. Safety--the finish – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of L.A.W. Bicycle Race. Safety--the finish. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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L.A.W. Bicycle Race. Safety--the finish
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A finish-line scene from an L.A.W. (League of American Wheelmen) race, the card's title refers to the "safety" bicycle, the chain-driven, low-framed design that replaced the high-wheeled penny-farthing in the late 1880s and helped bring cycling to a much wider public. Niagara Falls photographer George Barker made his name with stereo views of the falls and its surroundings, and this card shows that he also turned his camera to the sporting crowds that gathered in the area. The stereo format, with its paired images viewed through a hand viewer, was a popular home entertainment of the period, so the card offers a window onto both the bicycle craze and the parlor culture that carried it.
| Created / published | Niagara Falls, N.Y. : Geo. Barker, c1890. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | 27772V U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by George Barker. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 959 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-127358 |
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