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I live for the CABE
Who knows someone who frequents the Chicago Public Library. Look at all the early bike catalogs they have in their collection.
https://www.chipublib.org/fa-trade-catalog-collection/. Wish these were digitized and online.
Bicycles
Ames and Frost Company 1890s Beckly-Ralston Company 1910s Cash Buyers Union 1890s Excelsior Supply Company undated Foley and Williams Manufacturing Company 1890s Gourmully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company 1890s March-Davis Cycle Company 1890s Mead Cycle Company 1890s, 1910s, 1920s Moffat Cycle Company 1890s Montgomery Ward and Company undated Oxford Manufacturing Company 1890s C.F. Pease Company 1890s Premier Cycle Works undated E.B. Preston and Company 1890s Sears, Roebuck and Company undated E.H. Stafford and Brothers 1890s Sterling Cycle Words 1890s Western Wheel Works 1890s
https://www.chipublib.org/fa-trade-catalog-collection/. Wish these were digitized and online.
Bicycles
Ames and Frost Company 1890s Beckly-Ralston Company 1910s Cash Buyers Union 1890s Excelsior Supply Company undated Foley and Williams Manufacturing Company 1890s Gourmully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company 1890s March-Davis Cycle Company 1890s Mead Cycle Company 1890s, 1910s, 1920s Moffat Cycle Company 1890s Montgomery Ward and Company undated Oxford Manufacturing Company 1890s C.F. Pease Company 1890s Premier Cycle Works undated E.B. Preston and Company 1890s Sears, Roebuck and Company undated E.H. Stafford and Brothers 1890s Sterling Cycle Words 1890s Western Wheel Works 1890s
