Big wheels: Here are three of the 20 bicycle couriers in our Leisure and Home survey, from left to right: Stuart Douglas, Susie Steinfeld and a courier known only as Bone

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Big wheels: Here are three of the 20 bicycle couriers in our Leisure and Home survey, from left to right: Stuart Douglas, Susie Steinfeld and a courier known only as Bone

Date5/6/1992

Names

Beaty, Keith (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Big wheels: Here are three of the 20 bicycle couriers in our Leisure and Home survey; from left to right: Stuart Douglas; Susie Steinfeld and a courier known only as Bone.

Subject

Couriers

Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0005295F

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