Buffalo Bicycling History

Recent news on the auction of the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum collection sparked a search through our Sports Scrapbooks for more on Buffalo’s bicycling past.  Bicycles were hugely popular in the early 1900s, and Buffalo was home to several bicycle clubs that held races, rides, and picnics.  According to the article below, Buffalo was once known as “The Wheelman’s Paradise.”

More information on Buffalo’s bicycling history can be found in the Grosvenor Room’s scrapbooks, Local History File, and Vertical Files.

Imago Mortis on Dia de los Muertos

There may not be a better image to share on Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead than “Imago Mortis,” a woodcut found in this Library’s 1493 copy of Liber Chronicarum, a.k.a.the Nuremberg Chronicle. This woodcut, and many others in this amazing book, is credited to Michael Wolgemut and can be found in the “Seventh Age” on the recto side of leaf CCLXIIII. Although one cannot call it a true danse macabre (as there would living along with the dead), the dead figures do appear to be dancing to music and having a jolly good time too!