Detroit policemen with bicycles
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Description
View of two Detroit police officers posing with bicycles. Brick building in background. Typed on back: "Picture no. 6. Text: Good old days. While Detroit policemen were usually tolerant with motorists, they dealt sternly with speeding bicycle riders, known as 'scorchers.' (Because the judge chastised one of them for 'burning up the pavement.')." Handwritten on back: "Bicycles. So we quickly became known as 'scorcher cops.' Joe Whitty, left, and Charle Stewart, circa 1900."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na003797
- Subject:
- Bicycles
- Bicycle police--Michigan--Detroit
- Police--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- c.1900
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Bicycles
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.