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In the beginning of the 1890's Amos had to sell and fix bicycles to keep the cash flow coming in.

img178.jpg Amos Woodward's mechanical water wheel governor catalog from the 1890's.ThumbnailsThe front of an early A.W. Woodward business card.Amos Woodward's mechanical water wheel governor catalog from the 1890's.ThumbnailsThe front of an early A.W. Woodward business card.Amos Woodward's mechanical water wheel governor catalog from the 1890's.ThumbnailsThe front of an early A.W. Woodward business card.Amos Woodward's mechanical water wheel governor catalog from the 1890's.ThumbnailsThe front of an early A.W. Woodward business card.

A newspaper advertisement for the A.W. Woodward bicycle repair business. The ad is dated from 1894, when the country was in the midst of a depression, and Amos Woodward had to turn to bicycle sales and repairs to keep the company afloat.

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