This blog post serves as a guide to information mentioned at the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association conference in Baltimore. My presentation is “Trips Awheel: A Nineteenth Century Bicycle Travel Blog.”
Here are some useful links:
Bicycle Routes Project (https://libguides.rutgers.edu/historicalbikeroutes)
Bicycle Craze of the 1890’s
- Bike Boom (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_boom
- Page at Vassar: http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/bicycle.html
- American Heritage: https://www.americanheritage.com/content/great-bicycle-craze
Hidden Cities Philadelphia article on the bike routes: https://hiddencityphila.org/2018/07/victorian-era-philly-bicycle-routes-now-available-online/
Still Waters 