TOC Tuesday!

[39Rocket]

Here’s some of the TOC bikes I owned in my previous life 7+ years ago. Sold them because my son was going to be born so I downsized.

Crescent:

Sears

Wasp

American machine from Flint Michigan

Hawthorne

ST Nicholas child’s bike that is in amazing condition!

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Majestic Bicycles cover, 1896.

(Isadore Warshaw collection, Smithsonian.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

In 1894, Marble Cycle of Plymouth, Indiana, 68 miles west-northwest of Fort Wayne, published a catalog featuring its premium Smalley bicycles.

They were expensive. Smalley track racer cost $150, the equivalent of $5,309 today. The mens road racer, light roadster, and ladies "wheel" were each priced at $125, similar to $4,424 now.

(Pamphlet collection at the Indiana State Library, and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis data on inflation, prior to 1913.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Right-of-way dispute, illustrated by A.B. Frost in Harper's Weekly, 1896.

(Department of Commerce, & National Archives.)

 

[New Mexico Brant]

A new addition to the collection. What appears to be a possible Berlo multi-cycle.

 

[New Mexico Brant]

I love this one! It makes me glad one survives today.

 

[DaytonandElgin]

How to exercise on bikes in Leipzig, Germany, 118 miles southwest of Berlin.

(Scientific American, May 19, 1894, page 315. Department of Commerce, & National Archives.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

W.J. Rowe's Bicycle Emporium, Tampa, Florida, printed in Tampa Tribune mid-winter issue, 1900.

(Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library, Burgert Brothers collection.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Star Paint and Wallpaper, 300 Pine St., Seattle, also sold bicycles, & framed paintings, c. 1901.

(University of Washington, NW Digital Heritage.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

1897 receipt, Bigelow & Dowse hardware, cutlery, and bicycles, Boston.

(Digital Commonwealth, & Historic New England. Gift of Greg Smart.)