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It wasn't until the 1890s that "safety bikes" were invented without the large front wheel in front. Shows childhood home of Nellie Littlehale Murphy (1867-1941), an American artist, painter and illustrator who was born in Stockton, CA.

Shows several streetcars, followed by group on bicycles - includes high-wheeled bicycle, tandem bicycle.

Shows women and men standing on street, one man is walking a bicycle.

"Emperor Norton in carriage of State 1869." Joshua A. Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, is seen in full uniform riding a bicycle next to a picket fence

View down dirt street lined with trees. At right, street car on tracks. Boy and bicycle at center. Bicycle in ditch at left.

Shows a group of men in a narrow alley way drinking beer. There is a man in the middle astride a bicycle.

A row of men and their bicycles are perpendicular to a grandstand structure in the background; the row of cyclists is to the right of the photo with the track in front of them; the 2nd story grandstand is supported by pillars with offices underneath…

View of parade entry; shows flower decorated gaff-rigged sailboat on bicycles; woman wearing blouse shirt and pantaloons at the fore, man in uniform at the aft, young girl in boat, woman and man on bicycles in foreground.

View of a man and a woman posed next to their bicycles on a dirt road (Riverside Boulevard), another bicycle leaning against a tree at left, large tree next to the woman, building at right. Handwritten below the photo: The long forgotten "Riverside…

Shows Taber family in the backyard of their home, 1351 Madison Street, Oakland. From left to right: baby Louise, her nanny, Sarah Slocum (Annie Taber's mother), Annie Slocum Taber, Daisy, and the Chinese gardner and household servant.