High-Wheel Bicycle
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Title |
High-Wheel Bicycle |
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Subject |
Sports
Bicycles & tricycles |
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Place |
DeGraff (Ohio)
Logan County (Ohio) |
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Description |
Levi Hayes of DeGraff, Ohio owned this 1880 Columbia high-wheel bicycle. It measures 60" x 72" (152.4 x 182.88 cm). Before the release of "safety" bicycles, which had two wheels of the same size, bicycling required great athletic skill. The League of American Wheelmen, the first bicycle club in the United States, formed in 1880. By the 1890s, a "bicycle craze" had spread across the nation. According to historian Eugene Sloane: "by 1896 the watch and jewelry business had fallen almost to zero, piano sales had been cut in half, and book sales had dropped disastrously. Apparently, no one stayed home and played the piano or read, and instead of buying jewelry, people bought bicycles." |
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Creator |
Columbia |
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Date of Original |
1880 |
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Source |
Historical object(s) or artifact(s); 1962.042 |
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Submitting Institution |
Logan County Historical Society |
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Rights |
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information |
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Type |
StillImage |
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File Name |
Om412_930149_001.tif |
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Image Height |
1852 |
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Image Width |
2020 |
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File Size |
879.928 KB |
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Format |
picture
objects |
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