File:BikeBoys.jpg

Special District Messenger Boys, Group on Wheels, SLC UT 1912

Photographer Shipler Commercial Photographers; Shipler, Harry

Copyright claimed by Utah State Historical Society. Publication status uncertain, so licensed as fair use.

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1. It illustrates an educational article about Bicycle messengers.
2. It is a historically significant photo of a group of bicycle messengers in Salt Lake City, circa 1912.
3. It is of much lower resolution than the original. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality.
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