Image:Bicycling-ca1887-bigwheelers.jpg

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"Bicycling", a ca. 1887 color print showing one of the few ways in which it was socially acceptable for women to ride bicycles, in the years before the invention of "safety bicycles" and the woman's "bicycle suit" (compare Image:Ellimans-Universal-Embrocation-Slough-1897-Ad.png to see the radical change in the way that women rode bicycles over a period of just ten years).

The print shows a number of men riding big-wheel or "penny-farthing" bicycles, while a woman is riding a three-wheeled cycle, which appears to have little steering ability beyond manually braking one of the rear wheels slightly more than the other. The woman is probably riding in front partly for the reason that if she rode in back, the men would constantly have to be looking behind them, to make sure that they didn't quickly open up large gap by going much faster than she could.

Edited from the image http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g03000/3g03000/3g03043u.tif found on the Library of Congress website.

Bibliographic information found on the LoC site:

TITLE: Bicycling / Hy Sandham ; aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co.

CALL NUMBER: PGA - Prang--Bicycling (C size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-3043 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-1243 (b&w film copy neg.)

SUMMARY: Woman, on three wheel bicycle, followed by men on high-wheelers.

MEDIUM: 1 print : color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1887.

CREATOR: L. Prang & Co.

SUBJECTS:

• Bicycles & tricycles--United States--1880-1890.

FORMAT: Prints Color 1880-1890.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g03043 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03043 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a05079 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a05079

CARD #: 94508307

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• Penny-farthing
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