Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph list Just terrific detail throughout that

Just terrific detail throughout that rewards time and close looking

I have no idea what this was once attached to

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

on lined paper with embossed marks at corners

but I'll just take it on its face and say its a great looking painting

Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph list Just terrific detail throughout thatFloats, 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