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“Man and woman on a tandem bicycle, probably on the Olympic Peninsula.”
(University of Washington Digital Collections, Clallam County Historical Society Digital Collection, 59.46.6.)
“Photograph of Lucius D. Copeland standing beside motorized bicycle that he invented in Phoenix (Ariz.)”
(It looks like he’s mounted a very lightweight boiler and steam engine on an American Star bicycle. Shades of steampunk?)
(Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. History and Archives Division, 02-0133.jpg.)
(via afrormosia)
“Palmerston North’s 75th Jubilee celebration parade. Two men in period costumes riding penny-farthing bicycles of 1877, in Rangitikei Street. The 75th Jubilee celebrations were an eight day long series of events. On the afternoon of Wednesday, 19 March 1952, a parade around the square entitled ‘Cavalcade of transport through the ages’ was conducted.”
(Palmerston North City Library, 2008P_J102b_A-E_1367.)
“A bicycle with a heavy load of duck. Mr Tronson, of Woolston, has made some very successful trips to Lake Ellesmere this season, several times securing the limit, 25 birds. During the first ten weeks of the season he secured 182 grey duck, 25 teal, 58 Paradise duck, and 6 swans. Mr Tronson is a first-class shot, as is shown by his getting 271 birds for 300 shots this season. During the opening week he fired 71 rounds, getting 59 ducks and 1 swan. In his last trip he got 30 ducks and two swans, and of these 20 ducks are on the handles of the bicycle. As showing his enthusiasm for sport, Mr Tronson made thirteen trips to Lake Ellesmere during the first ten weeks of the season, covering 520 miles on his bicycle, and has had to carry the game shot. He uses his own patent decoys, which are headless.”
(The weekly press, 24 July 1918, p. 25, via Christchurch City Libraries.)
a day of love v. (by nataliecreates)
