A sure winner – Vintage Wall Art
![A sure winner, [ca. 1896] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7f/7f0690796c79-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of A sure winner. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Titled "A Sure Winner," this is a photographic reproduction of a drawing by Gies & Co., a commercial firm in Buffalo, New York, dating to about 1896. The title captures the confidence of the 1890s bicycle boom, when the safety bicycle made cycling practical for ordinary riders and clubs, races, and magazines spread quickly. Commercial firms like Gies & Co. often produced such images for advertising and popular print, so the drawing shows how cycling was marketed as well as how it was ridden.
| Created / published | [ca. 1896] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print(?) |
| Genre | Drawings 1890-1900 Reproductions 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Reproduction of drawing by Gies & Co., Buffalo, N.Y. |
| Subjects | Bicycles & tricycles--1890-1900. Cycling--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,333 × 5,512 px · prints to 18 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09467_Asurewinner |
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