Q3. Do you have, or have you photos of any old bike-related or bike advocacy ephemera?

Our office has a paper archive, and I saw this from the Philadelphia Bicycle Coalition in 1972.

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When you say 'old bike related' photos, are you referring to advocacy in particular? Not photos of ourselves on bikes in the 70s for example?
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A3. Our library has an extensive digitized clippings file for local news. Here is the #AADL clipping from 1898 seeking to build a bicycle path network around town. (Actually built in some form about 125 years later).

https://aadl.org/node/439005

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For Bicycle Paths | Ann Arbor District Library

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A friend of the family sent these clippings to me a while back. He made the paper for biking to work year-round & for organizing an annual Groundhog Day ride in Minneapolis. Circa 1969 (by 1971, Mike had left his accounting job at Honeywell and became Director of Northwoods Audubon Center, and did great things there; that’s how I knew him).

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@ascentale @bikenite A3: This was a fascinating blog post, maybe not quite what you’re looking for, but I hadn’t heard of it.

“Yes, New York had a 2,000-mile bicycle highway system by the year 1900”

https://empire.streetsblog.org/new-yorks-forgotten-2000-mile-bike-network-and-what-it-can-teach-us-today

New York’s Forgotten 2,000-Mile Bike Network—And What It Can Teach Us Today - Streetsblog Empire State

How a bold 1890s experiment led to one of the nation’s most extensive greenway networks.

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#bikenite #A3 - Sadly, I don't have scans, but some years ago while searching a storeroom at my great-grandparents house, I found a collection of letters in a drawer of an old side table that had been sent by my great-grandfather to my great-grandmother, who he was then courting, during a bike ride he made from Salt Point (near Poughkeepsie) to Niagara Falls in the 1890s.