Keating Bicycle – Antique 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
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Keating Bicycle. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Keating Bicycle
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The Keating Bicycle takes its name from the Keating Wheel Company of Hartford, Connecticut, which built one of the best-selling bicycles of the 1890s. This lithograph, dated around 1896, was likely made as a trade advertisement, a form of color printing that let manufacturers show off their machines to riders eager for the latest model. The bicycle boom of that decade was at its height, as cycling spread from wealthy enthusiasts to middle-class men, women and young people. Prints like this one reveal how makers sold the freedom and status of the wheel as much as the machine itself.
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1896. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 718 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125027 |
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