Fred Scherer & Walt Wiley (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Fred Scherer & Walt Wiley
[1913 May 3]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows bicyclists Fred J. Scherer and Walter Wiley in New York
City at the start of a bicycle race from New York to San Francisco,
May 3, 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and New York Times,
May 4, 1913)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.12828
Call Number: LC-B2- 2673-11
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martanoz - marta nogueira, placenamehere, quadmod, LukeSkytoker, and 40 other people added this photo to their favorites.
logista (46 months ago | reply)
See
LukeSkytoker (46 months ago | reply)
I love those old white rubber tyres.
Hart Ryan Noecker (46 months ago | reply)
Bikes!
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (46 months ago | reply)
Fred J. Scherer and Walter Wiley. The first team in, the bicycle race from New York to San Francisco started at 1 P.M. yesterday from the City Hall.
Source: New York Times; May 4, 1913
Website: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=98 07E5D8173FE6...
Sonomabuzz (46 months ago | reply)
An early bike tour...
Later...
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