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Woman in a long skirt and hat riding a motorcycle – Vintage Wall Art

Woman in a long skirt and hat riding a motorcycle — historic image
Woman in a long skirt and hat riding a motorcycle. Historic image from the Bicycles collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic image of Woman in a long skirt and hat riding a motorcycle brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Woman in a long skirt and hat riding a motorcycle

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A woman in a long skirt and a wide-brimmed hat sits astride a motorcycle, a pairing that would have been unusual when machines like this were still new to the road. Early motorcycling was overwhelmingly a male pursuit, and women who rode in full-length skirts, often without the protective gear later favored, were making a visible claim to mobility and independence. Pictures like this one show how quickly the bicycle and the motorcycle opened new freedoms for women, who had already used the bicycle to travel farther and more freely than their mothers had.

Original scan5,143 × 3,781 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi
Reference09191uwoman on a bicycle

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