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[Bicycle riders--Walthour in 6-day race] – Vintage Wall Art

[Bicycle riders--Walthour in 6-day race], [1909 Dec.] — historic photograph
[Bicycle riders--Walthour in 6-day race], [1909 Dec.]. Historic photograph from the Bicycles collection.

(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 print shows a rider named Walthour during a six-day race in December 1909, a single photograph from the George Grantham Bain Collection of news pictures. Six-day races were grueling endurance contests in which teams of riders circled a steeply banked wooden track around the clock, with partners taking turns so that the track was never empty. The events drew large crowds in the early 1900s, and they were a major part of American sporting life at the time. Bain's staff supplied newspapers with photographs like this one, so the picture captures the look of the sport as the public saw it.

Created / published[1909 Dec.]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection.
SubjectsBicycle racing--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,296 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181821

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