Taylor and Edmund Friol After Race

ID: 452 ~ Creator: Press Photography, May 31, 1909 ~ Date: Cyclist Race at Neuill-sur- Seine, Stade velodrome Buffalo, May 31, 1909.
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Taylor and Edmund Friol After Race

Marshall Taylor and fellow world track racing champion, Emile Friol of France, walking to the locker room after May 31 1909 race held at the Stade Velodrome Buffalo.

Image credit: Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

This file appears in: Racing in the Velodrome

By Kaelynn Hayes
The open air cycling track, or velodrome, before you is named for Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor. In 1899, Taylor, a renowned cyclist and world record holder from Indianapolis, became the second African American world champion athlete. Celebrated…