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[Bicycle shop, possibly Detroit, Michigan] – Historic Reproduction

[Bicycle shop, possibly Detroit, Michigan], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Bicycle shop, possibly Detroit, Michigan], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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[Bicycle shop, possibly Detroit, Michigan] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Bicycle shop, possibly Detroit, Michigan]

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A bicycle shop is the subject, though its location is only a guess: the cataloger tentatively placed it in Detroit. The image survives as an 8 x 10 inch glass negative, a large format that captured fine detail, and it belongs to the Detroit Publishing Company collection, whose photographers recorded American cities around 1900. The bicycle boom of the 1890s and early 1900s made shops like this common, selling wheels and repairing them for riders who now had an affordable way to get around. A name in the notes, possibly Metzger, may point to the business, but that connection is unconfirmed.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Metzger" [Wm. E. Metzger Co.?]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76055

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