Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all – Vintage Print
![Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all, [no date recorded on caption card] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/72/72c6419c7750-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
A window into the past: Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all
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The slogan "Keating Bicycle, 365 Days ahead of them all" makes a bold claim about the machine's reliability, the kind of boast American bicycle makers relied on during the late nineteenth-century sales rush. The chromolithograph was printed by Strobridge & Co. of Cincinnati and New York, a firm that produced many colorful commercial posters, and the bicycle was made by the Keating Wheel Company in Holyoke, Massachusetts, a manufacturing city on the Connecticut River. The caption card gives no date, so the poster is best placed in the bicycle boom of the 1880s and 1890s, when vivid color advertising helped sell an expensive new machine to a growing public.
| 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 | 908 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172498 |
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