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

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• 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

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• 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

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Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two.

from U.S. National Archives

• shannonpatrick17 said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell Daisy Bell 1894 mp3: www.archive.org/details/EdwardMFavor

• Maret Hosemann said:

  I like that verry much. Thanks für sharing.

• Jessica alex said:

  Wow, impressive shot The U.S. National Archives, I am interested in licensing it and have a few others I have my eye on. Please contact me via artists@picsastock.com. Regards, Jessica

• The U.S. National Archives said:

  @jessica.alex20: The photos shared in the US National Archives Flickr photostream are all in the public domain. We only ask that if you use one of our photos that you give us credit. Thanks! Mary U.S. National Archives

Penny Farthing

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 52 older comments, and then…
• derangedlemur said:

  It looks like it's snowing, though I would deduce from peoples' generally unfrozen attitudes that it's not.

• luca marella said:

  beautiful I really like the bike

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  derangedlemur Certainly not! Trees in full leaf, parasols, shadows...

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  luca marella Thanks Luca! Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it...

• DannyM8 said:

  maps.google.ie/maps?q=St.+Stephens+Green,+Dublin&hl=e... Has not changed much!!

Going to the bicycle tournament (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Silvester Humaj said:

  Penny farthing

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing "About 1870, English inventor James Starley, described as the father of the bicycle industry, and others began producing bicycles based on the French boneshaker but with front wheels of increasing size, because larger front wheels, up to 1.5 m (60 in) in diameter, enabled higher speeds on bicycles limited to direct drive. In 1878, Albert Pope began manufacturing the Columbia bicycle outside of Boston, starting their two-decade heyday in America. Although the trend was short-lived, the penny-farthing became a symbol of the late Victorian era. Its popularity also coincided with the birth of cycling as a sport."