Boston Trade Card For Columbia Bicycle

1881 trade card for Columbia Bicycles and Tricycles manufactured by The Pope Manufacturing Co., which had just moved to Boston (597 Washington Street). The card includes a view by “Copeland” of a man on a high wheel and a woman on a tricycle, framed in a large wheel. Testimonials listed on the verso include one by Rev. George Frederick Pentecost (1842-1900); the superintendent of drawing in Minneapolis schools; Doctor Benjamin Ward Richardson, who extolls the tricycle for women’s health (his views on “Woman as a Sanitary Reformer” had just been published); and, testimony from two British women who had logged 470 miles on tricycles.

A wonderful Victorian trade card, lightly tinted.

In excellent condition with expected light toning.

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