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[New Orleans, La., Mardi Gras Day, the Red" Pageant]" – Antique Wall Art

[New Orleans, La., Mardi Gras Day, the Red" Pageant]", [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph
[New Orleans, La., Mardi Gras Day, the Red" Pageant]", [between 1890 and 1910]. 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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A window into the past: [New Orleans, La., Mardi Gras Day, the Red" Pageant]", preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This glass negative records a Mardi Gras Day procession that the title identifies as the "Red" pageant, one of the many parades that moved through New Orleans on Fat Tuesday, the last day before Lent. By the 1890s, krewes were staging elaborate floats and costumed riders, and crowds packed the streets to watch them pass. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 by 10 inch negative, sent photographers across the country to document scenic places and public events. Its views of such celebrations are now a valuable record of how the city's carnival looked before the mid-twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 3770" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 34320. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsMardi Gras. Parades & processions. Crowds.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67289

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