The new woman" and her bicycle - there will be several varieties of her" – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with The new woman" and her bicycle - there will be several varieties of her", a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The new woman" and her bicycle - there will be several varieties of her"
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A joke about variety sits at the center of this 1895 cover: the title promises that "there will be several varieties" of the New Woman and her bicycle. The color halftone reproduces a drawing by F. Opper that ran on the cover of *Puck*, the New York humor weekly published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, on June 19, 1895. By the mid-1890s the New Woman, an independent, educated figure often associated with cycling, was a favorite target of satirists, and the bicycle craze gave cartoonists a ready symbol of women's new freedom of movement. The cover shows how the popular press debated women's rights through humor.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Subjects | Color halftone repro. of drawing by F. Opper, copyrighted by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Illus. in: Puck, 1895 June 19, cover, p. 288. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - WOMEN--RIGHTS--1895. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,104 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173519 |
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