TOC Tuesday!

[DaytonandElgin]

1895 Sterling Bicycle Company ad.

In 1898, Sterling won a silver medal at an exposition in Omaha for its chainless machines. (Miriam and Ira Wallach collection, New York Public Library.)

 

[cr250mark]

Chicago Cycle Club ( Race Team ) Large Original
Photo I had picked up from Richard over the
Weekend.
Love their Shirts and Matching Beanies.

 

[DaytonandElgin]

1897 Continental Bicycles cover for department store catalog, a business owned by John Wanamaker (1838-1922).

(NJ/DE Digital Collective, and Hagley Museum.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Brockton, Mass., 16 miles south of Boston.

(Digital Commonwealth, Brockton Public Library.)

 

[rustyjones]

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[DaytonandElgin]

Dayton ad, 1898. (Courtesy Dayton Daily News.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Three pages of the 1895 bike catalog from Henri Tull Conde (1851-1926), who owned an implement company in Indianapolis. His most expensive bicycles cost $100, the same as $3,676 now. They included the mens Tribune Racer and Tribune Ladies.

The others were $60 (similar to $2,205 today), or $30 (like $1,103, adjusted for inflation).

(Indiana State Library, and FindaGrave.com. Inflation data, prior to 1913, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Five pages of the 1895 bike catalog, The New York Store/Pettis Dry Goods Co., Indianapolis.

The mens Lenox Model A, and the ladies Lenox Model G, each cost $69, the equivalent of $2,536 now. The mens Swan, and the ladies Swan, had an identical price of $49, about the same as $1,801 today.

The catalog mentions Lenox Model F, designed for "expert riders," priced at $75 (approximately $2,757 now). But there's no image in the catalog.

(Indiana State Library. Inflation data, pre-1913, from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

(From the National Archives.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Top ad for 1896 Dayton priced at $100, the equivalent of $3,747 now. Bottom ad for Sager Saddles in The Bearings, published in Chicago.

(Smithsonian Libraries.)