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The famous bicycle tree of Snohomish [Washington] – Historic Reproduction

The famous bicycle tree of Snohomish [Washington], c1911 Feb. 6. — historic photograph
The famous bicycle tree of Snohomish [Washington], c1911 Feb. 6.. 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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A window into the past: The famous bicycle tree of Snohomish [Washington], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The picture shows a tree in Snohomish, Washington, that became a local curiosity because bicycles had been fastened into its trunk and branches, a sight that drew visitors and photographers. Asahel Curtis, a Seattle photographer who documented the Pacific Northwest in the early twentieth century, made the image, and the catalog dates it to about 1911. Snohomish was then a small river town in Snohomish County, and its growing use of bicycles made the display stand out. The photograph is useful now as a record of how people in that period treated new machines as novelties, and of the commercial photography that circulated scenes like this across the region.

Created / publishedc1911 Feb. 6.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsJ151826 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Asahel Curtis. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Trees; Natural phenomena; Wash.--S-; Bicycles; Photog. I.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,209 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136871

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