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Q2. Can you share images of women cycling:

- in the late 19th/early 20th century, when it was a A Big Deal*, including but not limited to ads & patronising satirical cartoons

- in press cuttings

- contemporary ones showing bicycles as a tool of independence (e.g. Afghan women)

Thanks. I got a message from Roach Minor, they've learned that bicycles played a big part in women's independence and it'd be fun to deluge w/ examples.

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Mx. Eddie R

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A2.
No photo, but during WWII the very last thing my grandmother and her sister did before leaving Amsterdam for Canada was to drop their skirts and ride through town wearing (*gasp*) pants. They stopped around the corner from the port to put their skirts back, rode to the ship, and still somehow Opa knew.
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