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Woman rides bicycle for 25 years – Antique Print

Woman rides bicycle for 25 years, c1922 Sept. 16. — historic photograph
Woman rides bicycle for 25 years, c1922 Sept. 16.. Historic photograph from the Bicycles 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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A woman who, according to the title, had been riding a bicycle for 25 years is the subject here, which puts her long cycling habit around the late 1890s. The photograph is dated c1922 and carries a copyright credit to Underwood & Underwood, a large American commercial photography firm known for its news and stereograph pictures in that era. Bicycles gained wide popularity with women in the 1890s, when the machines offered new mobility and helped prompt looser, more practical clothing. The record is based on an old caption card and has not been verified, so the exact details of the rider and her ride are not confirmed.

Created / publishedc1922 Sept. 16.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Bicycles...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,159 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142622

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