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Archie Roosevelt on a Bicycle
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- Library of Congress
Archie Roosevelt on a Bicycle
Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston, June 17, 1902.
The Roosevelt children energized the White House. Here, Archie Roosevelt rides a bicycle, a form of transportation which had become popular in America in the 1890s.
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