About the Collection

This digital collection explores the relationship between changing fashion and expanding personal freedoms utilising bikes through the 20th century. Through visual media, our collection of 25 photographs highlights how everyday riders expressed their identity through fashion and adapting bicycles to showcase individual style during the Bicycle Revolution.

GLAM’s Used

• Library of congress prints and photographs division
• New York Public Libraries, Digital Collections
• Oregon Digital Unique Cultural Heritage Collection
• Los Angeles Public Library, Photo Collection
• Oregon Historical Society. Library. (Digital Collections)
• University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives
• Denver Public Library, (Digital Collections)
• National Museum of American History
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
• National Postal Museum
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Contributors

• Andre Cachoua Cervillo Repository Manager
• Billy Chao Object Preservation Manager
• Britta Anderson Collection Dovelopment Manager
• Ceilidh McCallum Project Manager
• Hailey Rosquist Metatdata Manager

Intructor

Kate Thornhill

Course and Institution

LIB/ DSCI 350M Humanities Resource Data Management, Fall Term 2025 University Of Oregon

Ownership

We do not claim ownership over the objects within this collection. Objects are owned by their creators and source repositories. All Objects used in this collection are for educational purposes.

Acknowledgements

We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Kate for her knowledge and expertise with the tools skills we’ve acquired, and her willingness to help at every step along the process of creating this collection. We would also like to offer our thanks to the GLAMS we referenced and used in our collection, and acknowledge their opennes at having their own digital collections from which we had images and ephemera to look through.