- - - - - - - - Select a Year or an Event - - - - - - - - Home The Wheel 19th Century Bicycle News 1869 - The Velocipede 1869 - Progress of the Velocipede 1869 - Improved Three-Wheeled Velocipede 1880 - Salem, Oregon Post Office 1881 - A Bicycle Era 1884 - Taming the Bicycle 1885 - Manitou Springs, Colorado 1887 - The Columbia Bicycle Calendar for 1887 1887 - Around the World on a Bicycle 1890 1891 - Application of Rubber to Bicycle Wheels 1892 - The Lovell Diamond Safety Bicycle 1892 - . . . from New York to Chicago 1892 - A Bicycle Built For Two 1893 - Cycle-Infantry Drill Regulations 1893 - . . .Relations to the Physician 1893 - The Evolution of the Bicycle 1893 - Kyphosis Bicyclistarum 1893 - Aluminum for Bicycles 1893 - Bicycle Power-Plating Dynamo 1894 - Bicycle for the Park Police 1894 - Across Asia on a Bicycle: 1 1894 - Across Asia on a Bicycle: 2 1894 - Across Asia on a Bicycle: 3 1894 - Across Asia on a Bicycle: 4 1894 - The Search-Light Bicycle Lantern 1894 - Improved Pneumatic Saddle 1894 - An Improvement in Valves 1894 - The Reign of the Bicycle 1895 1895 - The Wheel Of To-Day 1895 - Woman And The Bicycle 1895 - A Doctor's View Of Bicycling 1895 - Bicycle Problems and Benefits 1895 - All Paris A-Wheel 1896 - Willson Park Bicycle Race Track 1896 - A Long Chase 1896 May 28, 1896 - Henry Ford's Bicycle Chain 1896 - The Rule of the Bicycle 1896 - The Bicycle Outlook 1896 - Bicycling for Women 1896 - American Bicycles in England June 14, 1897 - U.S. Army Bicycle Corps 1897 - Dangers and Benefits of the Bicycle 1898 - Over the Alps on a Bicycle 1899 - The Spanish-American War June 30, 1899 - Mile-A-Minute Murphy Aug. 10, 1899 - Salem, Oregon train station 1900 Dec. 17, 1903 - Wright Cycle Company 1905 1905 - In My Merry Oldsmobile 1908 - T.R. & the Siuslaw The Automobile Black Bicyclists 4th of July Kinetic Sculpture Racing L.B.S. Nellie & Susan & Frances The Racers The Coming of the Roads X-Bikes Links

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Photographer unknown. Collection of Sidney W. Newton. A gathering of a bicycle club in the late 1800s, from page 39 of Early History of Independence, Oregon.
Note: This page is under construction. Handpainted, photographer unknown. Library of Congress circa 1900  Misses Palmer and Severud and their "wheels" in Milton, North Dakota early in the 20th century. One steadies the handle bar and the other pumps air into a tire. Both are properly dressed as ladies of the day.		"There is one colsolation a man has in living in Corvallis—he can live to be an old man for he will never die of excitement. There is not enough of it here to ever be of any danger to a man's constitution." — Corvallis Gazette editorial     March 15, 1889 Photographer unknown, Summit County Historical Society, Western History/Genealogy Department, Copyright © 1995-2001 Denver Public Library Members of the Breckenridge Volunteer Fire Department pose with their safety bicycles during a trip to Kremmling, Colo., circa 1900. They have bedrolls and boxes tied to their handlebars. Next: 1905 See 19th Century Bicycle News for a selected bibliography and historical resources online, or use the links to find other sites of interest. Copyright © 2001  Dennis Cowals All rights reserved.