In the early 1890s, William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen Jr. circled the globe on newfangled "safety" bicycles, taking hundreds of snapshots with a Kodak No. 2 along the way. In this illustrated talk, David V. Herlihy, historian and author of Bicycle: The History, will discuss how these images were narrowly saved.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-May-2]