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Cycling Authority of America · 1890 · Chicago : The Authority · 14 pictures

A late nineteenth-century cycling catalogue published in Chicago in 1890 by the Cycling Authority of America, aimed at prospective bicycle buyers and riders. Its pictures are plain engraved side views of safety-style and high-wheel machines, with one page of riders performing trick cycling; a designer could take clean diagrammatic linework, spoked-wheel geometry and Victorian sporting-advertisement layout from them.

Cycling · Bicycles

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