Mardi Gras 2 New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910 – Historic Photograph Print
(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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Mardi Gras 2 New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Mardi Gras scenery, New Orleans, La.
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Mardi Gras 2 New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910
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New Orleans in 1910 was one of the busiest ports in the country, with steamships along the Mississippi loading cotton, sugar, and bananas bound for markets across the Gulf and the North. The city had roughly 340,000 residents, many working on the levee, in cotton warehouses, and in the sugar and rice trades that spread across south Louisiana. Carnival set the city's social calendar, and krewes such as Rex and Comus staged masked balls and street parades in the weeks before Lent, drawing crowds from every neighborhood. This picture shows the Mardi Gras festivities of that year, when the parades were a source of civic pride and a reminder of the city's French and Creole traditions, even as Jim Crow laws shaped who could watch from the curbs and who could ride on the floats.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | barnett, a. l. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Louisiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 718 px · prints to 18 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mardi Gras scenery, New Orleans, La. |
| Reference | LA Mardi Gras 2 New Orleans 1910 |
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