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Cycling

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

John T. Waters collection

 Collection
Identifier: L175
Scope and Contents The collection includes account books for the Waters furniture store (1885-1891, 1904-1908) and funeral business (1875-1891); Isaac White's account of fines collected as justice of the peace (1881-1883); John T. Waters's business papers and correspondence (1882-1917), including receipts and correspondence regarding his bicycling interests (1880s-1890s), and family letters from Brownsburg, Hendricks County and Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana (1888-1889); and photocopies of Waters family papers...
Dates: 1815-1908

Oscar V. Babcock photographs

 Collection — Folder SP054
Identifier: SP054
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs of Oscar Babcock in Indianapolis, Indiana in June-July, 1907 regarding Babcock's performances as a stunt cyclist at Wonderland Park, an amusement park on East Washington Street. Babcock is seen looping the "Death Trap Loop" on his bicycle in front of the Third Degree building at the park in front of an audience.
Dates: circa 1905-1930

Zig Zag Cycle Club collection

 Collection
Identifier: L218
Scope and Contents The records include club minutes (1895–1896), register of members, copy of the Zig Zag Cycle Club’s proposed legislation on improving state roads, letters, two issues of Bicycle World (1897), clippings, and pictures from the Zig Zag Cycle Club ranging from 1895 to 1897.
Dates: 1895-1897