High Wheel Bicycle

Bicycles; Transportation

The young fellow Harry Lemen describes as "the Cox Boy" is riding a high wheeler in front of Rousch's Book Store on Main Street. This type of bicycle was first mass manufactured in the 1880s and enjoyed only limited popularity. It is easy to see why. The bicycle was the hoola hoop of the early 1900s. Hardly a town existed that didn't have a bicycle club. It is probably one of the most enduring inventions ever made.

Harry Lemen, photographer

"The American Bicycle" by Jay Pridmore; Harry Lemen

Picture taken circa 1920s

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Photograph taken with Eastman-Kodak Brownie Camera No. 2C model A, using No. 130 film. Resulting negative (2.875in x 4.875in) scanned at 1200 DPI using a Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL. Online jpeg image file saved at 72 DPI 800 to 1000 pixels on long edge.

Still image

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