Bicycle History-RARE-1892 Cabinet Card Man w/his Bicycle Eastman Kodak Co Mount For Sale

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

Bicycle History-RARE-1892 Cabinet Card Man w/his Bicycle Eastman Kodak Co Mount:
$75.00

A superb, authentic late-Victorian outdoor photograph depicting a well-dressed young man standing proudly with an early diamond-frame pneumatic safety bicycle on a residential walkway, framed by classic multi-story clapboard architecture.Features a young man posing outside a multi-story clapboard house with an early diamond-frame safety bicycle with pneumatic tires, block chain, and drop handlebars, perfectly aligning with the mid-1890s American cycling boom.The reverse features the highly desirable, factory-printed Eastman Kodak Company decorative patterned back ("Manufacturers of the Kodak Camera, Eastman Kodak Co., 115 Oxford St. London, Rochester N.Y.").These distinctive mounts were provided to early Kodak roll-film users as part of Kodak's pioneering factory finishing and mounting services during the 1890s cycling and amateur photography craze.