Cycle history research online: Help from librarians

PTRCs welcome questions from the public. Find PTRCs by state.

All of the FDLP libraries are committed to helping anyone who asks for federal government information (such as U.S. patents). You need not be an affiliate of the library or its parent institution.

If you would like assistance from a research librarian, try contacting a library associated with a land grant university, particularly near where you live. Find land grant universities on this map.

Healey Library at UMass Boston has a large collection of cyclists' photographs, letters, publications, and scrapbooks (see examples online) as well as the records of the League of American Wheelmen, proceedings of the International Cycling History Conferences and other bicycling publications. They specialize in Boston-area and New England bicycling history but also have material from other geographic areas.