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Bicycle road maps in Harper's round table

Description: Image of an advertisement for bicycle road maps in Harper's Round Table featuring two men and a woman riding bicycles at top right; map of Hudson River in New York near the Harlem River, Yonkers, Hastings, Irvington, and Tarrytown.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1895
Call number: priJLC_ART_003155
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Victor bicycles

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Image of an advertisement for Victor Bicycles featuring a man looking admiringly over his shoulder at a woman riding a bicycle; flowers in background.

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Subseries A. Bicycle (large size)

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This subseries contains six prints related to bicycles that date from the early 1880s to 1897. The prints include four posters and broadsides advertising bicycles and bicycle tires, as well as an image of recreational bicyclists riding in a park (priJLC_TRAN_001196) and a view of the 1883 Springfield, Massachusetts, Bicycle Club cycling tournament (priJLC_TRAN_001382).

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Harper's round table

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The Jay T. Last collection of artist posters contains over 370 printed works spanning over eighty years, from 1883-1964. The bulk of the materials date from 1890 to 1900 and advertise American literary books and periodicals. Bicycles, household goods, and other products are also advertised. Notable artists represented in the collection include Will Bradley, Maynard Dixon, J. J. Gould, Edward Penfield, Ethel Reed, and Louis Rhead. Subjects addressed within the collection include international art styles (such as Art Nouveau), fashion, graphic design, publishing, book and literary journal publication, product advertising, and the intersections between them, especially during the last decade of the 19th century.

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Outing bicycle number for June 1896

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Image of an advertisement for Outing magazine June 1896 issue featuring a woman riding a bicycle down a dark path with a light beaming from her handlebars; a dog runs behind the bicycle at right.

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Columbia bicycle : the Pope Mfg. Co. Boston Mass

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Image of a man riding a high-wheel bicycle on a park path next to a pond, with other bicyclists and a horse-drawn carriage in the background; image is centered in an advertisement for the Columbia Bicycle, with printed text in the borders listing seven cycling records and images of bicycle accessories decorating the lower part of the sheet.

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Springfield Bicycle Club. : Bicycle camp-exhibition & tournament. Springfield, Mass. U.S.A. Sept. 18.19.20.1883

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the Hampden Park Race Track in Springfield, Massachusetts, with a crowded scene of participants and spectators for the September 1883 Springfield Bicycle Club cycling tournament with ticket booth and a steam locomotive and railroad tracks in the foreground, and the race track with tents, cyclists on high-wheel bicycles circling a course, and a grandstand in the background; the Connecticut River with boats including a steamboat, and the surrounding hillsides are in the distance.

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Bicycle road maps in Harper's round table

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