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Greetings, The PR info sent to you describing my exhibition at the Coronado History Association, “Bicycles & Bloomers: Women’s Emancipation and the Bicycle”, included some errors as it wasn’t first shown to me for proof-reading. The following is the email I sent Coronado after viewing their website:
I’m not sure if this should be addressed to you, but I read over the announcement on the Museum’s website and found some need for changes. Some of my corrections may seem insignificant, but they are more accurate.
As I experienced when doing the research for my book, there is a lot of misinformation published and one needs to be careful. For instance, even in the Forbes article about me, written by an acquaintance who didn’t want to listen to me when I asked him not to use superlatives, it should have read: I have ‘a’ top collection, not ‘the’ top collection. With this change the Forbes name could still be included – I don’t think they would mind.
I can’t say that I have “the largest collection of bicycle artifacts in the world”, so I would appreciate it if instead this is modified to read, “one of the largest…”.
As for: “Men on bicycles were a fairly common sight by the mid-1870s”, I’m not sure where that information came from. I would change the date to mid-1880’s. The velocipede craze of 1869-70 was just that, a craze that died. At least in the U.S., there was practically no activity until 1878 when high wheel bicycles from England began to be imported, then manufactured here in 1879. Riding clubs sprang up by 1880. So changing the date to mid-1880’s would be correct.
I hope this is helpful.
Regards,
Pryor