Trick Cyclist Nicholas Kaufmann, Rochester, New York, 1884
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Nicholas Kaufmann was a world famous trick bicyclist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this 1884 photograph, Kaufmann balances on a monocycle -- one of many wheeled props he used to entertain audiences. He won numerous medals for his mastery of the bicycle. A showman as well as an athlete, he later traveled the theater circuit and managed other bicycle acts.
Nicholas Kaufmann was a world famous trick bicyclist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this 1884 photograph, Kaufmann balances on a monocycle -- one of many wheeled props he used to entertain audiences. He won numerous medals for his mastery of the bicycle. A showman as well as an athlete, he later traveled the theater circuit and managed other bicycle acts.
Artifact
Cabinet photograph
Subject Date
1884
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
86.18.31.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Mounting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 6.438 in
Width: 4.188 in
Inscriptions
verso, printed: Wardlaw and Learned, 16 State St., Rochester, N.Y. verso, handwritten: Kaufman, fancy trick rider, Rochester, N.Y. 1884
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