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The Mardi Gras parade on Canal Street, New Orleans – Vintage Wall Art

The Mardi Gras parade on Canal Street, New Orleans, c1926 Mar. 11. — historic photograph
The Mardi Gras parade on Canal Street, New Orleans, c1926 Mar. 11.. Historic photograph from the New Orleans collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The Mardi Gras parade on Canal Street, New Orleans comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Canal Street, the broad avenue that marks the boundary between the French Quarter and the newer American sector, was a main route for New Orleans Mardi Gras parades, and this stereograph shows one of them in the 1920s. Keystone View Company, a Meadville, Pennsylvania firm that sold mass-produced stereo cards nationwide, issued it as a pair of images meant to be viewed through a lens for a three-dimensional effect. The March 11 date is an old caption entry that the record marks as unverified, so it may not match the parade's actual day, which fell during the Carnival season before Lent. The floats, costumed revelers, and crowds offer a window onto how the city's celebration looked to armchair travelers of the time.

Created / publishedc1926 Mar. 11.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesJ281647 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 26689. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Holidays; Processions; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,528 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143356

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