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- Creator
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Description
Time to dust off your velocipedes and bone-shakers! The League of American Bicyclists have declared May to be “National Bike Month” and have several events lined up to celebrate biking everywhere; Bike to Work Day (May 16), Bike to School Day (May 7), and Cyclofemme (May 11) .
I love picking a theme or keyword and browsing through the Smithsonian’s collections. It turns out ‘bicycle’ yields some exciting results:
- A letter carrier delivering mail by bicycle
- A spiffy bicycle logo
- A colorful drawing of a boy with his bicycle
- A bicycle toy from South Africa
- A cyclist greeting card
- A portrait of Audrey Hepburn on a bicycle
- A bicyclist matchsafe
- Sarah Hammer’s cycling shoes
- A Roper steam velocipede
- The Wright brothers bicycle shop stationary
- and a bicycling stamp
Here is a selection of our very own cycles from the history of the Smithsonian:
Related Resources
- The Development of the Bicycle, America on the Move, National Museum of American History
- The Wright Cycle Co. History
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- Published Date
- Thu, 08 May 2014 11:00:00 +0000
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- Blog posts
- Smithsonian staff publications
- Blog posts
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Topic
- Archive
- Record ID
- posts_cb839aed7a8df1398502e95409888c76
