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New York cyclists and the “Orange Riding District”
It’s National Bike Month again, and it so happens that Albert B. Barkman’s Road-Book of Long Island (1886) recently crossed our path. It’s an unassuming book at best, but like a great deal of our collections, when given a dose of context it turns out to be an interesting little piece of bicycling and mapmaking history. The Road-Book contains [...]
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Also tagged arthur p.s. hyde, barkman, bicycle, brooklyn, cycling, diary, ferry, golden age of bicycling, maps, montclair, national bike month, newark, orange riding district, oranges, railroad, road book of long island, routes, trains
