Books and Bicycles

The Indianapolis 500 isn’t the only prominent wheeled event in Indiana. The Lily Library at the University of Indiana is home to a stunning collection “of books, trade catalogs, periodical literature, photographs, sheet music, manuscripts and ephemera related to the early history of cycling”


Their online exhibit features an introduction to the history of cycling with a sampling of their holdings in various cycling categories.

The exhibit highlights 5 areas:

Early Bicycles
Bicycle Touring
Cycling in Fiction
Women Awheel
Cycling Music

Wheel away!