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Item 14784
Title: Bicycle Club members, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1895
Media: Photographic print
Item 9767
Title: Bicycles at Philpot's Store, Springvale, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee
Date: circa 1900
Location: Springvale
Media: Photograph
Item 78796
Title: Portland-Monson Slate Company, Monson, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society
Date: circa 1915
Location: Monson
Media: Photograph
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Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.