Sterling cycles. Built like a watch – Vintage Wall Art
![Sterling cycles. Built like a watch, Buffalo, N.Y. : Gies & Co., [190-?] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/93/9331c73e02f0-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.)
Description
Step back in time with Sterling cycles. Built like a watch, a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Sterling cycles. Built like a watch
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Built like a watch" is the boast that sets this color advertisement apart, and it shows a couple riding Sterling bicycles while the slogan promises precision engineering. The poster came from Gies & Co. of Buffalo, New York, a lithography firm, and the Library of Congress dates it only to the 1900s. Bicycles were a national craze in those years, and makers competed for buyers with bright, glossy lithographed posters that often pictured fashionable young couples. Comparing its figures, clothing, and sales language with other posters of the decade shows how cycling was marketed to middle-class riders.
| Created / published | Buffalo, N.Y. : Gies & Co., [190-?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1900-1910.Posters American 1900-1910.Prints Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. C71. 190-? |
| Subjects | Bicycles & tricycles--United States--1900-1910. Couples--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,160 × 1,447 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217061 |
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