"L.A.W. Bicycle Race--The start. Niagara Falls, N.Y."

ID: 5444 ~ Source: Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2007683337/>. ~ Creator: Geo. Barker, Photographer. ~ Date: Circa 1890.
This file appears in: 1887 Thanksgiving Day Bicycle Road Race
"L.A.W. Bicycle Race--The start. Niagara Falls, N.Y."

While photographs of bicycle road racing in New Orleans have not been located, this photograph of a bicycle track race in New York gives us an idea of what bicycles and riders in New Orleans may have looked like.

This file appears in: 1887 Thanksgiving Day Bicycle Road Race

By Lacar Musgrove
On a crisp Thanksgiving Day in 1887, a crowd gathered beneath the bare branches of the sycamore trees in the center of Canal Street. Bisected by multiple street railway beds and flanked by the lace-ironwork balconies of multi-story buildings, the…