Description
✳️ High resolution vintage digital image
✳️ Heavyweight, lightly textured fine art paper
✳️ Fade resistant archival inks
✳️ Fits standard sized frame
✳️ Rolled and shipped in a heavy mailing tube
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Our Posters provide a glimpse of an era when the bicycle was the king of transportation and on the cutting edge of technology.
These posters depict famous races and racers, bicycle brands and component manufactures.
Beautiful women in elegant clothes are often part of the advertising message of these posters. This is because the manufacturers were selling freedom to women in the suffragette era at the turn of the century as much as they were selling bicycles.
In the 1890’s as the Victorian age was coming to a close the bicycle was becoming a major social force in society. A horse drawn carriage was slow, trains were limited as to where they could take you and the automobile was still a toy of the eccentric rich. The bicycle was an affordable efficient mode of transportation available to almost everyone. The bicycle empowered women to go where they wanted when they wanted and is why so many women are featured in these early posters.
