The darktown bicycle club - on parade: Hooray for de rumatic! Dont she glide lubly."" – Vintage Print
![The darktown bicycle club - on parade: Hooray for de rumatic! Dont she glide lubly."", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1892. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d0/d08608b1c0fa-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The darktown bicycle club - on parade: Hooray for de rumatic! Dont she glide lubly."". It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The darktown bicycle club - on parade: Hooray for de rumatic! Dont she glide lubly.""
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The Darktown Bicycle Club is shown parading in this 1892 hand-colored lithograph, with a caption that mocks the riders' speech and jokes about a woman's supposed rheumatism. Currier & Ives, the New York firm better known for sentimental landscapes, issued many comic prints in the Darktown series during the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on minstrel-show stereotypes of Black Americans as foolish and clumsy. The bicycle craze of the 1890s gave these artists a fashionable new setting, even though Black cyclists were often shut out of white clubs and faced hostility on public roads. The image is best read as evidence of how popular racism was sold to buyers, not as a fair portrait of the people it shows.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1892. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | c1983 |
| Notes | Caricature issued as part of the Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,118 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112346 |
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