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Man posing with a high-wheel bicycle indoors – Historic Reproduction

Man posing with a high-wheel bicycle indoors — historic image
Man posing with a high-wheel bicycle indoors. 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 rare historic image captures Man posing with a high-wheel bicycle indoors in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Man posing with a high-wheel bicycle indoors

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A man in a three-piece suit stands beside a high-wheel bicycle, its huge front wheel towering over him, in what looks like an indoor studio setting. High-wheelers, often called penny-farthings, were the fashion for fast, adventurous riders in the 1870s and 1880s, before the safety bicycle with its chain drive and equal-sized wheels took over in the 1890s. Riding one took real skill and some nerve, since a fall from that height could be serious. Posed portraits like this one were a popular way for riders to show off their machines and their status.

Original scan2,370 × 3,307 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference04884u[Frances Benjamin Johnston, fu

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