Ride a Stearns and be content / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bld'g, N.Y. – Vintage Print
![Ride a Stearns and be content / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bld'g, N.Y., [1896] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/73/734772dfa6dc-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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Ride a Stearns and be content / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bld'g, N.Y. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ride a Stearns and be content / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bld'g, N.Y.
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Ride a Stearns and be content" is the slogan that gives this 1896 chromolithograph its particular pitch, pressing one bicycle brand rather than cycling in general. The Stearns name belonged to E.C. Stearns & Company of Syracuse, New York, a bicycle maker active during the 1890s boom, when cycling drew huge crowds of buyers and advertisers competed for their attention. The printed credit to J. Ottmann Lithographing Company, based in New York's Puck Building, places the sheet among the city's commercial color printers, when chromolithography was the main way to make large advertising posters.
| Created / published | [1896] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 152 x 116 cm. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Chromolithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. C76.6 1896. Purchase; (DLC/PP-1998:042). |
| Subjects | Bicycles & tricycles--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,797 × 4,696 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220203 |
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