Tag: Mardi Gras

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.

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

Watercolors pretty enough for a princess’s bridal parade. Sketches of floats for New Orleans, Louisiana Mardi Gras parades from a bit back in time. All delicately beautiful.

"Ahtola-water castle - Ahto, god of ocean" float. 1893.
“Ahtola-water castle – Ahto, god of ocean” float. 1893. Krewe of Proteus entry for a parade with a Kalavala” theme. 19th c. Watercolor. Carlotta Bonnecaze, maker. @Carnival Collection, Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University. Fair use license. via https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A9095

"Aida" float design for the 1901 Mistick Krewe of Comus entry for a parade with a "Selections from the Opera" theme.
“Aida” float design for the 1901 Mistick Krewe of Comus entry for a parade with a “Selections from the Opera” theme. 20th c. Watercolor. Jennie Wilde, maker. © Carnival Collection, Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University. Fair use license. via https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A7446

Alaska" themed float, Krewe of Proteus entry for an 1899 parade with an "E Pluribus Unum" theme. 19th c.
“Alaska” themed float, Krewe of Proteus entry for an 1899 parade with an “E Pluribus Unum” theme. 19th c. Watercolor. Bror Anders Wikstrom, maker. ©Carnival Collection, Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University. Fair use license. via https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A9159