Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph list revealing to me at least

revealing to me at least how little I actually know

but creating just the right amount of visual interest in its absence

and what could be better than these very high waisted blue pants in combination with his hat—and hands

I have no idea what this was once attached to

hands and feet/legs up to the knees are all super sensitively hand-carved and painted

Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph list revealing to me at leastFloats, parades and carnivals of all sorts were certainly hot in the 1890s, and this bicycle powered sail with anchor, constructed of netting and flowers, is just my sort of float! Waving at top is a handmade flag reading Flora, and faintly along the bottom of the image is a descriptor: "Flora Carnival 1898 No. 53" I presume the No. 53 suggesting that there were at least 52 other floats in the parade! With a handsome young man at the pedals and