c1896 ANTIQUE GLOBE CYCLE COMPANY FIRST PLACE PRIZE PHOTO BUFFALO NY BICYCLE. Front  marked in in First Price Globe Road Race. Back marked Globe Cycle Co with framers markings. Globe Cycle co held there bicycle race in 1896. I am unsure if the carriage pictured won the race or was the prize given. It features a carriage with 4 bibcyle tires and the man is steering handle bars to drive the team of horses. Very fun! Edge and corner wear, no photographers imprint, tack holes around edges, sepia toend, soem soiling, some moisture staining in the margins. A rare early piece of bicycle history. For more info see below. It measures 14" x 11". From the estate of Dale McKerrow, Arcade NY. A nice find.


Anotherer sent some helpful info about the 2nd race held in 1897 on a covered track at the Jewett Stock farm. Possibly this photo was from the 2nd race? That info is from an scan of a newspaper clipping shown in the scans, from the web and not actually included in the auction. A fun research project. 

The Globe Cycle Works first annual run took place on May 24, 1896, the date of this photograph. Here, hundreds of “wheelmen” line up at the Globe salesroom at 616 Main Street, ready to depart for the countryside. The run concluded in North Collins, where cyclists were treated to bicycle races, football, baseball, and other pastimes, all on the dime of Globe Cycle Works proprietors William H. Penseyres and Charles Haberer. The partners started manufacturing bicycles in a small shop in 1889, and by 1895 occupied a four-story factory at Broadway and Elm streets where Globe, Mascot, and P&H Special bicycles were made. By 1900, the firm was one of 79 bicycle manufacturers in Buffalo, at a time when thousands of bicycle commuters crowded Main Street, Broadway, Genesee Street, and Delaware Avenue during peak travel times. By 1904, Globe Cycle Works was out of the bicycle business, a victim of the “bicycle bubble” of the Gay Nineties. 

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