Almost as good as being at Mardi Gras in real time. No cocktails but they are all from a 1913 photograph album documenting a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade. Taken from the website of rare book dealer James Arsenault.

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Street Characters of New Orleans theme parade, part of the 1913 Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana. Silver print. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photograph album documenting a 1913 New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and celebration. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/9067/photograph-album-documenting-a-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade
Every balcony was packed. Silver print. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photograph album documenting a 1913 New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and celebration. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/9067/photograph-album-documenting-a-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade

All persons on floats were men. Silver print. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photograph album documenting a 1913 New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and celebration. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/9067/photograph-album-documenting-a-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade
Was all very spectacular in this brilliant ? (word not legible). Silver print. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photograph album documenting a 1913 New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and celebration. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/9067/photograph-album-documenting-a-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade

The police dog reporting a street fight. Silver print. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photograph album documenting a 1913 New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and celebration. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/9067/photograph-album-documenting-a-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade
You may name them (left) and Side View of This Impersonator (right). Silver print. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photograph album documenting a 1913 New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and celebration. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/9067/photograph-album-documenting-a-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade
Hideous party – part of a ? (word not legible). Silver print. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photograph album documenting a 1913 New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and celebration. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/9067/photograph-album-documenting-a-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade
Mr. Benedict Grunewald. New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. Silver print. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photograph album documenting a 1913 New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and celebration. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/9067/photograph-album-documenting-a-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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2 thoughts on “Almost as good as being at Mardi Gras in real time. No cocktails but they are all from a 1913 photograph album documenting a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade. Taken from the website of rare book dealer James Arsenault.”

  1. Nice historical pictures! Thanks for sharing them. We are catapulting into the future. “Can a nation that forgets its past have a future worth remembering?”

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    1. My pleasure. More photographs but they were too dark and or too repetitive for a blog post. And the handwritten captions can be difficult/impossible to read. I am hoping for a nation that has a future worth remembering –

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