American Decades
1900 Rambler and 1900 Pierce-Arrow
Photographs
By: The Bicycle Museum of America
Date: 1900
Source: 1900 Rambler and 1900 Pierce-Arrow. The Bicycle Museum of America. Available online at http://www.bicyclemuseum.com/Html/bike6.html; website home page: http://www.bicyclemuseum.com (accessed March 14, 2003).
About the Organization: The Bicycle Museum of America opened on July 23, 1997, in New Bremen, Ohio. Among its collection are nineteenth-century antiques, balloon-tire classics from the 1940s, and the banana seat bikes of the 1960s. Its oldest bicycle is an 1816 German model and its most recent a 1998 Huffy touring bike, the last model manufactured in Ohio.
Introduction
Between roughly 1890 and 1910, an interest in bicycling for health and recreation swept the United States. Physicians touted the...
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1900's Medicine and Health Primary Sources
- Letter to Jefferson Randolph Kean
- 1900 Rambler and 1900 Pierce-Arrow
- "How to Prevent Consumption (Tuberculosis) and Other Germ Diseases"
- "Preliminary Report of the Committee on Organization"
- The Jungle
- FDA-Federal Meat Inspection Act
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- "An Epidemic of Acute Pellagra"
- Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp
- "The Conduct of a Plague Campaign"
- "Soil Pollution: The Chain Gang As a Possible Disseminator of Intestinal Parasites and Infections"
- "Early History, in Part Esoteric, of the Hookworm (Uncinariasis) Campaign in Our Southern United States"
- Abraham Flexner: An Autobiography
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
