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

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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

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Bicycle racing at Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland ca. 1885

from State Library of Queensland

• Wayne Hill said:

  Those bicycles are penny farthings, would have been difficult to race and keep upright.

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

• 3 older comments, and then…
• Stuart said:

  How does one dismount from a penny-farthing bicycle?!! Stuart.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Gymnastically! Or at least quickly...

• hockadilly said:

  My grandfather (b. 1873) once rode on a penny farthing when he was a youngster - he dismounted head first, at speed. He was still laughing about it aged 92.

• Jim Griffin said:

  They do look difficult to ride.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  So no harm done to his sense of humour then, hockadilly!