A platform designed to look like a horizontal dictionary, pulled by horses. Two children operate a printing press and a man is seated at a table in front of two large upright books.
A parade float carries five women in costume. Four face another woman wearing an antebellum era dress and bonnet who stands in the doorway of a small building.
Horses pull a platform carrying several people in Revolutionary War costume. Some of the soldiers have firearms and one is behind a cannon. The platform appears to show a bridge over a river.
A parade float pulled by horses depicts a ship on the ocean. Skeletons are attached to the ship's sails, and a British flag projects from the ship's stern.
A parade float pulled by horses. The float depicts a round submarine gun turret emerging from the ocean. Nearby a rider in costume carries a sign that that reads "Monitor."