Ride a Crawford Bicycle – 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 rare vintage poster captures Ride a Crawford Bicycle in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ride a Crawford Bicycle
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Few posters from the 1890s stand as tall as this one, which measures about 211 by 102 centimeters and was printed as a chromolithograph by Strobridge & Co. of Cincinnati and New York. Its title, *Ride a Crawford Bicycle*, places it in the bicycle boom of the mid-1890s, when the safety bicycle with wheels of equal size made cycling popular across the country. Color lithography like this was a main way companies reached shoppers, and posters were often pasted on storefronts and fences. The date and details come from an older caption card and have not been fully verified.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster). |
| Notes | Chromolithograph by Strobridge & Co. Lith., Cincinnati-New York, 211 x 102 cm. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 722 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128390 |
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