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24 photos and 5 illustrations tagged pennyfarthing, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• bicycle
• cycling
• bldigital
• date1880
• pubplacecoventry
• publicdomain
• sysnum000561729
• cwjanoldrider
• vol0
• mechanicalcurator
• imagesfrombook000561729
• imagesfromvolume0005617290
• small
• vintage
• bike
• sherlocknet:tag=people
• sherlocknet:tag=john
• sherlocknet:tag=year
• sherlocknet:category=objects
• sherlocknet:tag=beauty
• foto
• fahrrad
• hochrad
• bicycles

Members using this tag

• California Historical Society 13 photos & illustrations
• British Library 4 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• Museum of Hartlepool 1 photo / illustration
• Dundas Museum and Archives 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Charles Zoller with bicycle

from George Eastman Museum

• 8 older comments, and then…
• Canardo said:

  Just what were they thinking with those things? Is it like the peacock's tail? Maybe it was an ostentatious display of stupidity to get on one of those things, and maybe that worked...

• Ingrid Spangler said:

  is he barefoot? How strange.

• lisa-skorpion said:

  Hallo, ich bin der Administrator der Gruppe Die Erinnerungen, und wir würden uns freuen, wenn Du dies zu unserer Gruppe hinzufügen würdest.

• laney maxwell said:

  nice call on the barefoot, ingrid! this guy has me beat

• Canicuss said:

  I think it's more likely he's wearing oxford shoes than posing barefoot. That wouldn't be very gentleman like.

Alfred Lee and penny farthing, Glen Street, North Sydney, undated / photographer unknown

from State Library of New South Wales

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Abaft Instrument said:

  I'm the first -:) wonderful capture……………....

• Denise Rose Photography said:

  Love that bicycle! How in the world did they climb up there to ride?

• longreach said:

  Another great shot from the library - thanks for the memories.

• Udayan Kapur said:

  Tron in the making :-)) Wonderful shot !!!

• victorious crowd said:

  LOVE it !!!

Man on a penny-farthing bicycle being chased by his sister (Maggie & Bob Spiers) - West Wyalong, NSW, C. 1900

from State Library of New South Wales

• 2 older comments, and then…
• Edward Perry said:

  I love seeing people smiling in really old photos. Mostly because I usually see them serious faced otherwise.

• Andrey Timofeev said:

  ha ha, great!

• Happy days 09 said:

  Marvellous

• Lutfi Hilmy Abdullah said:

  those black spot actually gives aesthetics value, hehehe.

• typical wool said:

  excellent!