Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all – Historic Print
![Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all, [no date recorded on caption card] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/57/571c0c154247-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all
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The title on this poster, "Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all," makes its claim outright: the Keating was sold as a bicycle that always stayed ahead of its rivals. It was printed as a chromolithograph by Strobridge & Co. Lithographers of Cincinnati and New York for the Keating Wheel Co. of Holyoke, Massachusetts, a city that was an early center of American bicycle manufacturing. The caption card gives no date, so the poster is best placed in the late nineteenth-century bicycle boom, when makers used bright, large color prints like this one to advertise their machines to a public that was just learning to ride.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster). |
| Notes | Chromolithograph by Strobridge & Co. Lith., Cincinnati & New York. Manufacutred by Keating Wheel Co., Holyoke, Mass. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 745 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176588 |
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