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Tandem bicycle with red painted steel frame. This two-seat bicycle was bought in 1906 by Harry Baugh of Garden City, then handed down to Joe Sartorius, and finally to Joe's daughter, Maria Sartorius Craig. The bike's manufacturer, the American Bicycle Company, existed for a very short time, from 1899 to 1902. Baugh and Sartorius both were living in Garden City when the tandem changed hands. Baugh moved to Kansas from Missouri in the 1910s, and the Sartorius family (originally from Germany) came to Garden City around the same time so Joe could work as foreman in a sugar beet factory. The bicycle's Wichita license tag apparently dates from Maria Craig's period of ownership.
Creator: American Bicycle Company
Date: between 1899 and 1902
Item Number: 220644
Call Number: 1981.263.0
KSHS Identifier: 1981.263.0
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Sports - Cycling - Bicycles
Date - 1890s - 1899
Date - 1900s - 1900
Date - 1900s - 1901
Date - 1900s - 1902
Objects and Artifacts - Distribution & Transportation Artifacts - Land Transportation, Human-Powered - Bicycle, tandem
Places - Cities and towns - Garden City
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Finney
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Transportation - Bicycles
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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