1896 Bicycle, Cycling for Health, Pleasure & Sport ~ Illustrated Article

This is an original illustrated magazine article that has been carefully extracted from an 1896 issue of Metropolitan Magazine.

Photos/illustrations include:

ï Club-Run members stopping at a farmhouse for a glass of real milk
ï Tourists arriving at one of the many semi-English inns which cater to cyclists
ï Muscular bulldogs with active red jaws are discouraging obstructions to bicycle tourists
ï No party of tourists is complete without its camera enthusiast
ï A professional racer being paced by a tandem for a world's record
ï A part of Riverside Drive a favorite run for New York cyclists
ï One meets graceful girls at every turn in Central Park when the weather is fine
ï A great rendezvous for wheelmen--Prospect Park, Brooklyn
ï The wheelmen's highway over the masts of ships--the Brooklyn Bridge
ï and others

Title: The Modern Centaur by H.M. Breen

Subtitle: The Bicycle as a Factor for Health, Pleasure, and Sport

Length (includes front & back): 15 pages

Approximate Page Size (in inches): 6 x 9

Condition: Excellent (the atticpaper watermark does not appear on the actual article)