“$20 Reward For the arrest of rider and delivery of 7 h. p. Regular Indian Motorcycle in good condition.”

Stockton, California, 1913. Single 6 x 9 inch sheet. Marked with blue crayon at upper left corner, otherwise near fine.. A wanted poster offering $20 for the return of a stolen Indian motorcycle. Indian motorcycles were an early American motorcycle, built by the Hendee Manufacturing Company in Springfield, Massachusetts. This particular one was a tandem model, stolen from a race ground in San Jose in August of 1913. Motorcycling was then a very new sport, with the first motorcycling club, the Federation of American Motorcyclists, having been formed in New York City not ten years prior.