Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph radial stripes unusual in my experience for

unusual in my experience for a folk painting on slate

There is a small hole at the center of the recess at going through the N on the bottom through which a wire or thread could be strung

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

In some ways seeming to reference Inuit masks

in two different styles)  and animals on the two others

Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph radial stripes unusual in my experience forFloats, 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