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[Mardi Gras day, Rex passing up Camp Street, New Orleans] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Mardi Gras day, Rex passing up Camp Street, New Orleans], [between 1900 and 1906] — historic image
[Mardi Gras day, Rex passing up Camp Street, New Orleans], [between 1900 and 1906]. Historic image 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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Rex, the king of New Orleans' Mardi Gras, leads the procession this view captures as it moves up Camp Street on carnival day. The Rex organization had staged its daytime parade since 1872, and its floats and costumed riders drew crowds along the route, while carriages and coaches of the period share the street with the marchers. Made between 1900 and 1906 by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American towns and cities, this glass transparency preserves how the city's most famous street celebration looked in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 transparency : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreSilver gelatin glass transparencies.
NotesTitle and date from Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019325. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCarnival. Parades & processions. Streets. Carriages & coaches.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 692 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-78749

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