The darktown bicycle club - on parade: Hooray for de rumatic! Dont she glide lubly."" – Antique 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/d4/d4228ecc6ec4-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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Step back in time with The darktown bicycle club - on parade: Hooray for de rumatic! Dont she glide lubly."", an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Among the bicycle prints on this board, this one stands out for its caption, which imitates heavy dialect to mock a parade of Black cyclists under the title "The Darktown Bicycle Club." Published by Currier & Ives in New York in 1892, it belongs to the firm's Darktown series, a run of racist caricatures that portrayed Black Americans as comic figures. The bicycle craze of the 1890s gave many people new mobility and leisure, and prints like this one show how white publishers used images of Black riders to ridicule their claim to those pleasures. The hand-colored lithograph is best viewed as evidence of that prejudice rather than as lighthearted humor.
| 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 × 1,085 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174296 |
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