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"How de Debble Does Dey Make a Bicycle?"

1892

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This stereograph card depicts a boy sitting in a room with frame of an umbrella and a hoop on his lap. He holds a hammer in his right hand. There is a tabby cat sitting on his left. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the center of the card. At either end of the card is vertical text. On the left side margin is text that reads "Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers. / New York, N.Y." On the right side margin is text that reads "Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, / [illegible]erpool, - New York, - Chicago, -Toronto, - Ottawa, Kas. - El Paso, Tex." Along the bottom left margin is text that reads “Copyright, 1892 by Strohmeyer & Wyman." Along the bottom right margin is text that reads "How d [illegible] does dey Make a Bicycle?" / Com[illegible] se hacen los Bicirculos?"

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Catalog reference: 2015.248.4.28

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