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Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 6 - Procession of the Mistick Krewe of Comus" [Epicurean floats]" – Historic Reproduction

Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 6 - Procession of the Mistick Krewe of Comus" [Epicurean floats]", 1867 — antique engraving
Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 6 - Procession of the Mistick Krewe of Comus" [Epicurean floats]", 1867. Antique engraving 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 6 - Procession of the Mistick Krewe of Comus" [Epicurean floats]". An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The procession pictured is the Mistick Krewe of Comus, and its "Epicurean" float shows the krewe's habit of building each year's parade around a themed tableau. Comus, founded in 1857, is widely credited with setting the model for the organized, float-based Mardi Gras parades that New Orleans still holds. This wood engraving ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on April 6, 1867, a national weekly that carried illustrated coverage of events like this to readers far from the Gulf Coast. Printed engravings of this kind were often the main way people outside the city saw Carnival festivities.

Created / published1867
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 24, no. 601 (1867 Apr. 6), p. 41. Caption card tracings: La.--N--O--; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,011 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137488

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