Keywords: Springvale Advocate
Item 21534
Frank Dexter, Springvale, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 22843
Sanford Weekly Ledger Print Shop, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Sanford Media: Print from glass negative
Exhibit
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.
