New Rapid Bicycle, 1889
date: label: date made
content: 1889
notes: label: Description
content: St. George's Engineering Company of Birmingham, England manufactured this New Rapid safety bicycle in 1889. The cycle has an improved cross frame with crank-bracket stay and a small footrest on the front wheel for coasting. A small leather tool bag hangs from the steering-head stay. Attached to a bracket on the front of the steering head is an oil lamp marked "Zacharias & Smith, Bicycle Sundries, Newark, N. J." The cycle is emblematic of the type produced in Britain during the 1880s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Bicycling
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H. K. Griffith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.201660.1
label: catalog number
content: 201660
label: accession number
content: 35291
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bicycle, Safety
label: Object Name
content: bicycle
label: Other Terms
content: Bicycle, Safety; Road