The Bicycle Problem (1895)
Cartoonist satirizes the craze: "Wheelman's Restaurant: A Bicycle Rack at Every Table."
Captions paired left and right - starting at top:
Some doctors claim that the bike is beneficial, and makes everyone look like this.
Others hold that it is injurious, and causes the above effects.In some part of the country bloomers are sternly suppressed.
And in others they are rigidly insisted upon.Some think that by next year even invalids, babies and the blind will join the ranks.
While others insist that by that time the wheeling craze will be dead.Bottom: And meanwhile the boom goes on.
With signage including:
Use Sprockett's Liniment for Sprains, Bumps and the Wheelman's Troubles
Wheelman's Restaurant: A Bicycle Rack at Every Table
A Darkroom Photographer: Portraits of Wheelmen a Specialty
Hotel Bikemore: A Free Cycle Track in our Basement for use of our Guests
The Cycleford Apartments: Storage Room for Wheels on Every Floor
Title: The bicycle problem / Ehrhart.
Contributor Names: Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937, artist
Created / Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1895 October 30.
Journal: Illus. from Puck, v. 38, no. 973, (1895 October 30), centerfold.
Library of Congress: 2012648575
Hey! That's my bike!