Visual Materials
Los Angeles Wheelmen scrapbook
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- Description
- A disbound scrapbook and four additional folders containing photographs, newspaper clippings, and some ephemera related to the Los Angeles Wheelmen bicycle club and bicycling in Los Angeles, California, from the late 1880s to about 1940. Items include assorted photographs of bicyclists, races and events, photographs of different bicycle styles including high wheel, tandem and safety styles, ephemeral items such as dealer cards, greeting cards with images of bicycles, advertisements for races and events, and bicycle history-related newspaper clippings. The materials date from the late 1880s to the 1930s. Among the images are photographs of T. Alvan Luter (1886); members of the Oberon Bicycle Club; F. Florentin (1900); Frank Pearne (1900); Frank Haeney (1921); Jessie Brunson, the owner of the second women's bicycle shop in Alhambra; the Lee Chambers Bike Shop in Santa Monica (1899), and the Main Spring Salon storefront at the junction of Spring and Main Street in Los Angeles (1902). The collection includes some correspondence and envelopes addressed to Clyde Hafer of Los Angeles around 1940, suggesting that he may have been the scrapbook's compiler. In addition there is a copy of the August 8, 1896, issue of the Washington Cyclist periodical; a bicycle catalog booklet of the Appeal Mfg. & Jobbing Company (titled "Greetings 1908: Appeal to the Earth is the Echo"); and a booklet, "Food Facts" by Donald B. Armstrong (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1917).
