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Ambrotype - Man with High Wheel Bicycle

In this ambrotype a young man stands beside his high wheel bicycle. His arm rests on the seat of the prized machine. It is unusual because of the high wheeled bicycle but also because it was taken outside and not in a studio. Like the daguerreotype most ambrotypes were portraits taken in the studio. We have only a few outdoor examples in our collection.

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Uploaded on January 5, 2008