Caption
Six reproductions of drawings of a cyclist by a palm tree with a monkey in Africa, Wonderful adventures of a cyclist in Africa, album page, reproduction, photomechanical print, These prints are part of an album., inscription: 'Series 1.', after drawing by anonymous, publisher: BJ Lindeboom & Zonen, Amsterdam, 1905 - 1906, pasteboard, paper, collotype, photogravure, height 300 mm x width 238 mm, Such prints were known as 'blackies'. They were obtained when purchasing certain brands of tea, cocoa, cigarettes, biscuits, etc. for collecting. There were collector albums in circulation specially produced for the 'blackies'., riding, cycling (recreation), monkeys, apes, Africa, A cream-colored page with a heading at the top and three columns of rectangular illustrated vignette frames arranged in two rows, each frame held by decorative corner mounts; each vignette shows a coastal scene with palm trees and a sandy foreground featuring men in early cycling attire and bicycles in various poses, including a man waving toward a palm tree, a man doing a handstand near a bicycle, a crouched figure near a bicycle, a cyclist leaning into a turn beneath a palm tree, a fallen bicycle with a man standing nearby, and a man standing looking out toward the shore; the illustrations are rendered in muted grayscale tones and each frame has a thin dark border and light decorative outer border, with faint printed captions below each vignette.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26A80_019
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51.1Mb (10.8Mb) / 12.6in x 15.8in / 3777 x 4729 (300dpi)