Saturday, May 7, 2016, 12 p.m., 7Crest Financial Partners Hall
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Thomas Gaskell Allen (American, 1868–1954). The scenery nearing Bey Bazar showing the various colors in Cayere. A volcanic district. After leaving Nalikhan., April 9, 1891. UCLA Library Special Collections.
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In the early 1890s, William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen Jr. circled the globe on newfangled “safety” bicycles, taking hundreds of snapshots with a Kodak No. 2 along the way. In this illustrated talk, David V. Herlihy, historian and author of Bicycle: The History, will discuss how these images were narrowly saved.
Free to members; included w/museum admission. Talk only: $6 general, $3 students.