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Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 1 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Dane, Jefferson, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Green, Rock, Walworth, Ra...
Map or Atlas

Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 2 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Marquette, Green Lake, Columbia, Fond Du Lac, Dodge, Washington...
Map or Atlas

Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 12 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Douglas, Bayfield, Burnett, Washburn, Sawyer, Price, Ashland, ...
Photograph

Mailman and His Family

Date: 1890
Description: On the right a mailman is standing with his horse and cart. The cart is labeled "RFD Route No.1" and "U.S. Mail." Members of his family, one boy and one gi...
Print

A Velocipede of Fifty Years Ago

Date: 03 06 1869
Description: Engraved image of a man in a top hat and tails riding a velocipede. Another rider is in the background.
Photograph

Man Posing with Bicycle

Date: 1894
Description: Cyanotype print of a man standing and holding a bicycle in a wooded landscape. Probably a self-portrait of William H. Dudley of Madison.
Magazine or Periodical

Frank G. Lenz

Date: 1892
Description: Portrait of Frank Lenz on his safety bicycle which he rode on a round-the-world tour. He is posed on a country road lined with fences and telegraph or tele...
Magazine or Periodical

Going Straight Through the Mountain

Date: 08 1892
Description: Engraving, probably after a photograph, showing Frank Lenz posing with his safety bicycle near the stone arch entrance of a canal tunnel cut through a moun...
Magazine or Periodical

A Sorely Neglected Stretch

Date: 05 1892
Description: Frank Lenz posed with his bicycle on a badly neglected stretch of road. A split-rail fence encloses a field behind Lenz.
Photograph

Bicycle Team at Camp Randall

Date: 1899
Description: Three men posing with their bicycles along a picket fence. Caption reads: "On Camp Randall, 1899. Bicycle Team." The name "Sumner" is written in the lower ...

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