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Victor Bicycles, designed and printed by Will Bradley at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1899

Location Note

Product catalogues: Automotive supplies and vehicles: Bicycles

GUSN

GUSN-198625

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Description

The text on page one in the second image reads "one model only / the best model / one price only / the popular price." The standard bicycle in the third image is on page six in the catalog. Victor Bicycles were manufactured by the Overman Wheel Company in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts with offices in Boston and other cities.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
bicycles
vehicles (transportation)
Art Nouveau
trade catalogs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000642
AccessID 877
Other identifier HNEDID-000642

Physical Description

1 trade catalog : color illustrations

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.12.004.002.004

Places

Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Chicopee Falls (Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]

Record Details

Originator

Bradley, Will, 1868-1962 (Designer)
University Press (Cambridge, Mass.) (Printer)
Overman Wheel Co. (Manufacturer)

Material Type

trade catalogs

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Product catalogues: Automotive supplies and vehicles: Bicycles

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