Velocipede – Vintage Print
(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
This antique lithograph of Velocipede brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Velocipede
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A tobacco package label from 1869 puts the velocipede craze on a small, colorful lithograph, printed by M.V. Noody of Terre Haute, Indiana, for use on tobacco packages. Velocipedes, the early pedal-driven bicycles known as boneshakers, had only recently reached American streets and swept through towns, riding academies, and fairgrounds in 1868 and 1869 before the fashion faded. Manufacturers often borrowed the newest enthusiasm to catch a buyer's eye, so the label works as both an advertisement and a record of a short-lived fad. It also shows how commercial lithography, which reached ordinary Americans through labels like this, could make a fashionable novelty instantly familiar.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | LOT subdivision subject: Bicycles and Bicycling. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Manufactured by M.V. Noody, Terre Haute, Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,016 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117340 |
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