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Illumination of Pickwick Club and Canal Street, New Orleans Mardi Gras – Vintage Photo Print

Illumination of Pickwick Club and Canal Street, New Orleans Mardi Gras, c1898. — historic photograph
Illumination of Pickwick Club and Canal Street, New Orleans Mardi Gras, c1898.. 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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Illumination of Pickwick Club and Canal Street, New Orleans Mardi Gras

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The lights of the Pickwick Club along Canal Street make this c1898 view of Mardi Gras in New Orleans stand apart. Canal Street was the wide central boulevard where Carnival parades passed, and clubs of the period often lit their buildings and floats with gas or electric lamps to turn the night into a spectacle. The print is credited to photographer John N. Neunisson, but the caption card that accompanied it is unverified, so its exact date and location should be treated with some caution.

Created / publishedc1898.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by John N. Neunisson. No. 5. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Lighting; Mardi Gras; Louisiana--N- O-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,220 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137975

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