Peugeot 303
Philadelphia 76, 101-104, 116, 127, 128, 129, 148, 150, 152, 236, 287, 341
Philadelphia Press 104
Pickaninny 116, 197, 330
Pickford, Mary 89, 332
Pierce-Arrow bicycles 183, 184
Pisceone, Dan 48, 49
Pope Manufacturing Company 57, 58
Port Phillip Hotel 270, 290
Portland, Maine 105, 106
Portland Evening Express 105, 106
Poulain, Gabriel 304, 305, 311, 313, 314
Powers, Pat 76, 80, 131
Prayer 49, 148, 203, 231, 250, 310
Prejudice 24, 30, 37, 64, 97, 112, 114, 154, 169, 263, 283, 292, 300, 326
President McKinley 58, 89, 138, 247, 249
Providence 48, 100, 118
Pullman Race 102
Queens Park 158, 159, 162, 164
Racism xi, 30, 78, 79, 100, 122, 131, 136, 166, 177, 197, 242, 257, 258, 264, 265, 283, 326, 237
Reading, Pennsylvania 100
Rebels 141, 143, 154
Referee 95, 221, 263, 282, 285
Retirement 276, 279, 280, 320, 326, 333
Rigby Park Fairgrounds 105, 106
Ritchie, Andrew 326, 344
RMS Ventura 264, 265
Robinson, Jackie xi, 31, 78
Rockefeller, John D. 11, 58, 70, 276
Rome 254, 310, 328
Roosevelt, Teddy 58, 92, 119, 190, 202, 236, 240
Roubaix 216, 219-221
Russell, Lillian 49, 89
Ruth, Babe 89, 333
Rutt, Walter 306, 311
Sabbath 122, 145, 200, 208, 210, 267, 310
Sager, Harry 148, 152, 167, 178
Salvator 21, 55, 150
San Francisco 72-76, 83, 264, 296, 297, 324
Sanger, Walter 42, 65, 102
Savannah, Georgia 121, 124-126, 156
Scrapbooks 201, 309, 340, 342, 345, 346
Scribe Hotel 211
Secret Service 58, 163
See-saw Cycling Club 34
Segregation 25, 34, 70, 335
Shafer, Dave 138
Sickness 182, 322
Sister’s illness 28, 171, 199
Six-day race 46, 47, 72, 76, 83, 87, 89, 90, 94, 95, 97, 98, 100, 152, 190, 192, 204, 224, 281, 302, 327, 331, 332, 335
Smith, Harry Worcester 323, 341
S.S. Sonoma 280, 293,
South Brooklyn Wheelmen 79
South Wabash Avenue 335
Southard’s 4, 7, 8, 14, 25, 30, 37, 73, 78, 96, 185
Sporting Globe 312
St. Cloud Hotel 249
St. Louis 35, 75, 115, 141, 144, 146, 154, 162, 204
Stearns Company 97, 152, 154, 340
Sterling, Dorothy 30
Stevens, Orlando 143, 173
Stewart, Henry 159
Stinson, Will 51
Sullivan, James 74, 140, 189
Summer Nights Amusements 262
Sunday racing 122, 123, 142, 145, 148, 172, 197-203, 208, 224, 243, 253, 263
Superstition 20, 79, 215, 229
Sydney, Australia 264-270, 279-283, 291-295, 300-303
Sydney Cricket Grounds 266, 283
Syracuse 145, 154, 248, 249, 346
Taylor, Gertrude 171, 199
Taylor, Gilbert 3, 4, 39, 186, 187, 189, 202
Taylor, Rev. Louis 178
Taylor, Saphronia 4, 9, 34, 39, 100, 121, 203
Taylor, Sydney 295
Taylore, Edward 149
Telegram Race 62
Threats xi, 5, 21, 31, 33, 104, 107, 109, 111, 115, 124-129, 140, 177, 183, 187, 190, 227, 229, 243, 247, 257, 259, 284, 289, 310, 317
Tioga Track 128, 129
Toulouse–Lautrec, Henri de 209, 242
Track racing 15, 16, 32, 37, 38, 47, 55, 65, 77, 84, 121, 185, 216, b, 283, 290, 331, 336, 340, 343
Trade shows 59, 62, 152
Trenton House Hotel 141, 142
Triple Crown xii, 197, 198, 202, 213, 221, 229, 240
Troy, Willis 120
US Championship 199
Vailsburg 188, 258, 259, 319, 331
Vanderbilt, William K. 10, 11, 80, 84-86, 228, 243, 248, 249
Vaudeville 200-202
Velodromes xi, 17, 20, 65, 104, 111, 120, 121, 129, 138, 189, 196, 198, 204, 214, 216, 222, 227, 235, 242, 247, 259, 336, 343
Verviers 220, 221
Voight, Fred 258
Walker, Ben 60
Walker, Don 267-270, 282, 287, 295, 296
Walthour, Charles 50, 51
Washington, Booker T. 202
Washington Post 51, 96, 113, 146, 343
Watts, Colonel 31
Wells, Ida 30
Wheelmen Park 124
White Cappers 30, 125
Wild Bill Cody 84
Wilder, Edward 61, 80
Williams, Bull 282
Willits, Bert 18
Windle, Willie 10, 24, 25, 63, 173
Windsor Hotel 158, 159
Wisconsin 114, 154, 205
Woodside Park 127, 148, 149
Worcester Cycle Company 58, 60, 116
Worcester Polytechnic 320
Worcester Telegram 62, 177, 204, p, 280, 297, 306, 322, 325, 346
World Championship 22, 74, 75, 132, 150, 153, 157-189, 194-205, 218, 231, 239, 254, 264, 267, 282, 290, 294, 301, 305, 315, 337
World records 25, 50, 55, 60, 137, 149-152, 169, 223, 264, 273, 306
Wright, Wilbur 169
Yates House Hotel 248
YMCA 30, 61, 186, 335, 337
Young, Cy xi, 21
Zig-Zag Cycling Club 18, 23-25
Zimmerman, Arthur A. xii, 18-25, 35, 43, 51-55, 64, 69, 80, 83, 95, 117, 120, 123, 131-133, 138, 139, 141, 152, 183, 185,196-200, 209, 210-212, 215, 218, 220-223, 228, 237, 247, 262, 275, 295, 302, 320, 333, 334, 340-343
In the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, bicyclists, called wheelmen at the time, fought against horsemen for equal rights to roads.
Arthur Zimmerman on the left, his trainer, Joseph McDermott in the center, and Zimmerman’s father, T. A. Zimmerman, on the right (photo retouched).
A portrait of Louis D. “Birdie” Munger.
In the early days of bike track racing, before effective helmets, riders endured many hardships, including crippling injuries or even death. Pictured above is a battered and bruised rider named Alphonse Goosens, shortly after being patched up by his trainer.
Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1898 (from the collections of the Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts).
Munger faced fierce competition in the bicycle manufacturing business, primarily from Colonel Albert Pope, New England’s largest employer. Above, Teddy Roosevelt rides in a Pope automobile, flanked by secret servicemen on Pope bicycles (credit: The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut).
A portrait of William A. Brady.
Fans file into the second of four buildings named collectively Madison Square Garden. This one, built during the Gilded Age, right before the economic depression of the 1890s, was undoubtedly the grandest.
Undated photo of a velodrome (credit: from the collection of the Indiana State Museum Historical Sites).
An artist’s rendering of Taylor’s dramatic night races under colored incandescent lights.
In the lonely world in which he lived and raced, Taylor sought strength from the soothing words of the Bible and the tenacity of William Brady (photo from The Cycle Age and Trade Review, July 21, 1898).
Claiming their social lives would be adversely affected, many of Taylor’s rivals avoided man-to-man match races against him (photo from Bearings, July 29, 1897).
Despite racism from fellow countrymen, Taylor stands proudly wrapped in a red, white, and blue sash (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).
A Major Taylor accordion fan (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).
Taylor met Daisy Victoria Morris sometime around 1900, thrilling society writers around the world (photos from the c
ollection of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites). In one of his letters to her, Taylor wrote:
… sweetheart, when a man is married and has a good wife as I have, and a nice baby girl, he will take a good deal, and stand for many things that he would not, were he not married… . I stand for many things now that I never thought I could put up with, and for which I never would stand up before I married.
Taylor stands next to French writer and race promoter Victor Breyer in 1901.
Shortly after the remarkable 1900 racing season, Taylor stands outside a velodrome locker room (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).
Photographed here by the French newspaper La Vie au Grand Air, Taylor became the most widely followed person in Europe (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).
Cold and shivering, Taylor walks onto the Parc des Princes track ahead of French Triple Crown winner Edmond Jacquelin. Their match race would be remembered more than a quarter century later (from La Vie Illustrée, May 24, 1901).
Taylor’s appearances in France generated enormous profits for track officials, allowing them to substantially upgrade the Parc des Princes track, shown above, and later secure the Olympics held there.
After snapping a photo of him with his Kodak Brownie camera, Taylor extends his hand to Jacquelin (credit: Jules Beau collection, Bibliotheque Nationale Paris).
Shortly before leaving Europe, Taylor accepts another award (credit: Jules Beau collection Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris).
When Taylor returned to America he faced intense hardships, and fierce competition from men like Frank Kramer, pictured above (credit: Bibliotheque Nationale de France).
Daisy and Major pictured together during their 1903 honeymoon in Australia (from the collection of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites).
A packed house at the racetrack in Sydney, Australia. According to race promoter Hugh McIntosh, when Taylor raced, gates of 50,000 to 60,000 were commonplace.
Taylor’s archenemies, Floyd MacFarland and Iver Lawson, surface in Australia in 1904 (photo from The Referee, December 30, 1903).
During his hiatus from bike racing, Taylor often drove his Renault along Worcester’s tree-lined roads (from the collection of the Indiana State Museum and Historical Sites).
Taylor and Jacquelin in a match race in 1908 (credit: Bibliotheque Nationale de France).
Daisy, Major, and their daughter Sydney pictured around 1907–08 (from the collection of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites).
Before a packed house in New Jersey, Taylor competes in the 1917 Old Timers’ Race (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).
After taking ill, Taylor looks away from a cameraman sometime around 1926 (from the Worcester Telegram, December 18, 1926).
In the last known photo ever taken of him, a thin Taylor reads a book, which is probably the Bible (from the Chicago Defender, July 2, 1932).
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