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Little girl dressed up as a milk delivery personA little girl dressed up as a milkman (or milk woman), complete with her miniature milk float. The photograph of King George VI
People You See: The Swimming Instructress. From Teddy Bear (13 July 1968). Date: 1968
Pictures to Colour of People You See: The Swimming Instructress. From Teddy Bear (13 July 1968). Date: 1968
Bocage centenary, Setubal, Portugal -- commemorating the death of Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805), Portuguese poet born in Setubal. Date: 1905
Flower-decked float, Pasadena, California, USAFlower-decked float in a street in Pasadena, California, USA. Date: circa 1912
Fourth and Broadway, Los Angeles, California, USAFloral parade at Fourth and Broadway, Los Angeles, California, USA. Showing the Fire Department on a horse-drawn float. Date: 1900s
United States Navy - Destroyer DD-293 - USS BillingsleyUnited States Navy - Destroyer DD-293 USS Billingsley, assisting Douglas World Cruiser float-plane 23-1231 (msn 147) Boston, which was forced down near the Faroe Islands and damaged beyond repair
Friedrichshafen FF. 63Friedrichshafen FF.63; a float -equipped monoplane based on the Brandenburg W.29. Date: circa 1918
A device used to float messages down the Seine and out of the city. Date: 1870 / 1A device used to float messages down the Seine and out of the city. Date: 1870/1
THAMES FIRE FIGHTERSLondon fire-fighters attend to the engines of the Beta III fire float, one of several such boats used for fire cover along the river Thames. Date: June 1933
MILKMAN MAKING DELIVERYA cheerful milkman takes bottles from his float to deliver to someones doorstep. Date: 1960s
LORD MAYORS SHOWThe float symbolising the Entente Cordiale with France, in the Lord Mayors procession of 1905 Date: 1905
United States Navy Wright XF3W-1 A7223. Built as a landplane for racing and engine development testing, the XF3W-1 was later fitted with a pair of floats and also a single float with stabilisers
Sleeping Kashmir boatmanA man asleep in the stern of a punt, or shikara, loaded with cattle fodder. The punt floats though the river weeds and only the mans legs and feet are visible Date: 1986
Liverpool Coronation Procession - June, 1953Crowds pack the streets to watch the Liverpool Coronation Procession to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - June
Lieutenant James Harold DoolittleLt James Harold Doolittle standing on the float of his Curtiss Schneider Cup Racer
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Aquatennial Parade - FloatsMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Aquatennial Parade - Colourful Floats Date: 1939
France - Nice Carnival - The Music Float Date: 1904
Two kittens on a raft on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Gotha WD-10 German single-seat naval fighter biplane designed by Oskar Ursinus, seen here with floats retracted, thus improving its aerodynamic effect
Four Girls on a LogFour German girls float on a log Date: 1930
Bonfire Society float, East Dean, East SussexBonfire Society float on the recreation ground in East Dean, East Sussex, with carthorses Diamond and Damsel. Date: circa 1960
Women Munitions Workers Keighley WW1On 23rd September 1916, the West Riding Volunteer Regiment organised a flag day and procession with marching bands. It included an attractive tableaux or float by the Keighley National Shell Factory
Miniature. Deluge. Noahs ark Circling the Kaaba (Mecca). MuIslamic art. Miniature. Deluge. Noahs ark Circling the Kaaba (Mecca). Museum of Turkish and Islamic art. Turkey
Hansa-Brandenburg W 12 reconnaissance fighterHansa-Brandenburg W 12 German float-equipped two-seat reconnaissance fighter. It first flew in January 1917. Seen here is serial no. 2016, an early production example
Albatros W 4 German single-seat floatplane fighter used by the German Navy to defend its shore bases. It entered service in late 1916. Seen here is serial no
Blacksmiths Float - Shoeing Force, Preston, Lancashire, England. Guild Week Celebrations Date: 1922
Salisbury Street, Blandford Forum, DorsetSalisbury Street, Blandford Forum, near Blandford St Mary, Dorset, England. Showing Parade with Trade Float - Celebrating the Tercentenary Date: 1920s
Taoism. Last phase of alchemical meditation. Chinese art. Engraving. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library
Victory steam engine in procession - Henley-on-Thames, probably to celebrate the coronation in 1911. Date: 1911
Swimming a WitchThe art of Swimming a witch. The lady floating is the witch, who by dint of her buoyancy has failed the test. At the bottom right-hand corner you can see the feet of the woman who passed the test but
MFB fire float and tug with river firemenA Metropolitan Fire Brigade fire float and tug with river firemen. These composite craft were introduced in 1877 by Captain Eyre Massey Shaw, Chief Fire Officer of the MFB
German Gotha WD1 seaplane, WW1A German Gotha WD1 seaplane, used for coastal patrol work in the early part of the First World War. It was a two-seater, with a 100 horsepower Daimler engine and two floats. Date: circa 1914-1915
German Gotha WD7 seaplane, WW1A German Gotha WD7 seaplane (water biplane), used for reconnaissance work during the First World War. It had two 120 hp Mercedes engines. Date: 1916-1918
Ufos / Santos / BrazilMoyses Santos, of Belo Horizonte, is visited by six 1.2 metre aliens, who float clumsily round the room, bumping into furniture, then exit through the wall
Types of British Aircraft -- The Sopwith Seaplane. 1914-1918
Types of British Aircraft - The Wright Seaplane, tractor type. 1914-1918
Types of British Aircraft -- The Bristol Fighter. 1914-1918
Hvitarvatn Lake, IcelandHvitarvatn is a glacier lake in the Icelandic highlands, feeding the glacier river Hvita in South Iceland. North of the lake is the mountain hut Hvitarnes. Date: circa 1930
View from a cruise ship to an Ice BarierView from a cruise to an Ice Barier, Spitsbergen (Spitzbergen) circa 1930
Iceberg in Kings Bay, Spitsbergen (Spitzbergen)Floating iceberg in Kings Bay, Spitsbergen (Spitzbergen), Norway. circa 1930
Boy fishing from an open window. 19th century
Art festival float in Tijuana Mexico. A man in a blue shirt and wearing a baseball cap is standing in front of the float Date: 1982
Woman and two men standing on the float above the street at the 1982 Art festival in Tijuana Mexico. Cars are passing below to the right of the picture. Date: 1982
Roman Soldiers passing over Bridge of BoatsRoman Soldiers crossing a Bridge of Boats, probably over the River Danube, in Trajans war on the Dacians (present-day Romania). circa 101-106
Jubilee procession, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South AfricaQueen Victoria Jubilee procession, Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: 1897
Young woman fishing on a German postcard. The two holes are designed for someone to put their fingers through and pretend they are legs -- such was the sense of humour in those days! Date: circa 1890s
Teddy bear fishing. Date: circa 1900s