Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph radial stripes painted panes and curtains on

painted panes and curtains on each of the many windows

in two different styles)  and animals on the two others

with this pup's spring wire spring tail a perfect complement to the spring wire body of the figure

with orange on the the knobs

with a white sticker (showing black in the photo) on which is written "Window Roses 2" in pencil

Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph radial stripes painted panes and curtains onFloats, 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