[Leon Georget, full length, seated on bicycle, facing right; another man holding the bicycle] – Antique Wall Art
![[Leon Georget, full length, seated on bicycle, facing right; another man holding the bicycle], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/62/62969811b666-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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This historic photograph of [Leon Georget, full length, seated on bicycle, facing right; another man holding the bicycle] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Leon Georget, full length, seated on bicycle, facing right; another man holding the bicycle]
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Leon Georget sits full length on a bicycle, facing right, while another man steadies the machine beside him. The pose suggests a staged moment of preparation rather than a race in progress, which was common in press photographs of cyclists from this era. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the news photo files of the Bain News Service in New York, and its caption card links it to bicycle racing. The card records no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the collection as a whole dates mostly from the early twentieth century, when cycling was a popular spectator sport.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Bicycle racing; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135902 |
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