Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph list and what could be better

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

but these gorgeous old Mosaik blocks give them a run for their money

Just terrific detail throughout that rewards time and close looking

PA -- who I have learned lived 1902–1962

on lined paper with embossed marks at corners

Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph list and what could be betterFloats, 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