Columbia Bicycle, 1888
date: label: date made
content: 1888
notes: label: Description
content: The Pope Manufacturing Company made this Columbia Light Roadster model bicycle around 1888. The introduction of the safety bicycle with equal-sized wheels made Ordinary (or high-wheeler) less popular, and Pope introduced a safety model in 1888, and ceased production of the Ordinary in 1892. Albert A. Pope founded the Pope Manufacturing Company in the 1870s. The company was the first company to manufacture bicycles on American soil. Pope, who had previously exported bicycles from England, began building bicycles under the trade name "Columbia" in the Weed Sewing Machine Company's factory in Hartford Connecticut in 1879. By 1890, the company was so successful it purchased the factory from Weed because it needed all the space.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Bicycling
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of A. E. Schaaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.313371
label: catalog number
content: 313371
label: accession number
content: 182167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bicycle, Ordinary
label: Other Terms
content: Bicycle, Ordinary; Road