Schwinn Catalog Project

As many of you know, I have started to create webpage versions of vintage Schwinn catalogs. I wanted to give an example of what these catalogs will offer to the community and why I am doing it.

Here is the complete text and images from the 1964 Schwinn Catalog (the cover of which is pictured to the right – and the first year Sting-Rays were in a catalog!).

Notice this catalog is very easy to read, is all in one page, and is now a searchable index of Schwinn bicycles of 1964. What I mean by that is search engines can now index the full text of this catalog. Schwinn catalog scans and images have been kindly put on the web by several great people. But since search engine can not “read” images, the text of these catalogs was not available to them (or the people searching for such information).

In any case, I am making web versions of every Schwinn catalog I can. If you have scans of vintage Schwinn catalogs, please let me know so I can put the webversion up for other enthusiasts and collectors.

I have got my own copies of the following years (if I have begun working on the web versions there will be a link on the year) – 1949, 1955, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980

The main index page for the catalogs will be my Schwinn Catalogs page.

There should be a new catalog every few days there so keep checking back.