"William Martin, champion six-day bicycle rider of the world, full-length portrait, facing left, on bicycle with large front wheel and small rear wheel. "
This file appears in: Founding of New Orleans Bicycle Club, 1881
The high wheel, or “penny farthing,” bicycle pictured here is similar to the bicycles popular in New Orleans during the 1890s.
This file appears in: Founding of New Orleans Bicycle Club, 1881
Founding of New Orleans Bicycle Club, 1881
In 1881, the New Orleans Bicycle Club formed in a building at Commercial Street and St. Charles, inside the jewelry and pen shop of A. M. Hill.
A. M. Hill arrived in New Orleans at nineteen years…