Cover title: Bicycle road map : Roberts' road map of the District of Columbia and adjoining portions of Maryland and Virginia : with tables of distances ... character of roads.
Created / Published - Washington : W.F. Roberts, c1896
Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division
http://lccn.loc.gov/88693356
![Roberts Bicycle Map Washington DC and area 1896](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1481/23853852750_11fd052afb.jpg)
Click here for zoom view of this 1896 map
![Roberts Bicycle Map Washington DC and area 1896 - detail](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5639/24041418602_5e11ca56d1.jpg)
Detail showing Washington DC and then-Alexandria (not Arlington) County
![Roberts Bicycle Map Washington DC and area 1896 - road quality](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1661/23781925789_436f18ca8d_m.jpg)
Indicators for quality of roads (for use by cyclists)
![Roberts Bicycle Map Washington DC and area 1896 - Rides in VA](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5739/23854093720_f7964d23e3_m.jpg)
Runs (ie, rides) into Virginia from downtown Washington
Distances are from the U.S. Treasury Department building and not the U.S. Capitol.
I found a similar, but not the same, map from 1896 published in the Washington Times that I blogged about.
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