Cleveland cycles / Pal. – Historic Print
![Cleveland cycles / Pal., Paris : Imp. Paul Dupont, [1897] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5c/5ce32f927e2f-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.)
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A window into the past: Cleveland cycles / Pal., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cleveland cycles / Pal.
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Few bicycle posters of the 1890s pair a product name with a Native American subject quite like this one, which advertises the Cleveland wheel, an American-made bicycle sold widely in the period. The lithograph was printed in Paris by Paul Dupont, one of the city's leading print houses, and is credited to the artist "Pal." Bicycle advertising boomed across France and Europe in those years, and illustrators often drew on exotic or stereotyped figures to make a product seem fashionable. The Library of Congress included the poster in a resource guide on Indian and Alaska Native peoples, where it is useful as an example of how such figures were used in commercial imagery.
| Created / published | Paris : Imp. Paul Dupont, [1897] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Posters 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 180. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Performances & portrayals. Bicycles & tricycles--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,176 × 1,472 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217849 |
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