The Great Wallace Shows ... The celebrated Stirk Family - the World's greatest bicyclists – Historic Reproduction
(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 vintage poster of The Great Wallace Shows ... The celebrated Stirk Family - the World's greatest bicyclists. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Great Wallace Shows ... The celebrated Stirk Family - the World's greatest bicyclists
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A color poster from 1898 promotes the Wallace Shows and names the Stirk Family as "the World's greatest bicyclists." The Buffalo firm Courier Litho. Co. printed it, and it was submitted for copyright deposit, which is how many such posters were preserved. Trick cycling was a staple of 1890s circus programs, riding alongside the bicycle boom that swept the United States, when cycling acts drew large crowds under the big top.
| Created / published | Buffalo : Courier Litho. Co, 1898. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 52 x 72 cm. |
| Notes | Copyright deposit. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Title. II. Title: Stirk Family. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,121 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176344 |
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