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Mardi Gras Postcard

Era: 1915-1929
Postmark: February 1937
Description: This view represents the Carnival Court of McDonogh school No. 10. Floats are made by the pupils. Many elementary schools have parades on Friday before Mardi Gras day and small kings and queens hold royal sway.
Publisher: E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis.

Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1952 Curt Teich
Description: A Typical Mardi Gras Float
New Orleans, La.
New Orleans carnival "Mardi Gras" is superior in pomp and gorgeousness to any celebration of this kind anywhere in America or abroad. Mardi Gras dates back to 1827 and the floats first appeared in 1827.
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard

Era: 1930-1944
Description: Mardi Gras Parade
New Orleans, La.
One of the several hundred floats seen in the annual Mardi Gras festival parade of New Orleans. Thousands of visitors flock to the Creole City to view this magnificent spectacle every year.
Publisher: MWM Aurora, Mo.

Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1930-1944
Description: Each year as Mardi Gras time comes to visit Canal Street here in New Orleans, hundreds of thousands of celebrants jam America's widest business thoroughfare to watch the colorful parade.
Publisher: E.C. Kropp, Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1939 Curt Teich
Description: A Typical Mardi Gras Float
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1939 Curt Teich
Description: Here the King Meets the Queen and Drinks a Toast
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1939 Curt Teich
Description: King of Rex, Receiving the Key to the City at City Hall
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1939 Curt Teich
Postmark: July 1942
Description: A Typical Mardi Gras float
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1939 Curt Teich
Description: Beauty Under Mask, Mardi Gras Time, New Orleans, La.
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1939 Curt Teich
Description: King of Rex, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, La.
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1939 Curt Teich
Description: Crowds Watching the Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, La.
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1939 Curt Teich
Description: Float in Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, La.
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1945-Present
Description: Mardi Gras, New Orleans, LA.
Jambalaya, Crawfish Pie.
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1945-Present
Postmark: February 1956
Description: King Rex
The Monarch of Misrule, and King of Carnival, as seen aboard His Royal Float on New Orleans' world famous Mardi Gras Day.
Publisher: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., San Francisco 1, Calif.
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1945-Present
Description: Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Canal street in New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day is crowded with gay, happy thousands viewing the Rex Parade. D. H. Holmes Company, Ltd. - New Orleans' Quality Department Store is as much a part of New Orleans as Mardi Gras itself.
Publisher: H.S. Crocker Co., Inc., San Francisco 1, Calif.
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1958 Curt Teich
Description: King Rex, Monarch for a Day,
Mardi Gras, New Orleans, LA.
"King for a Day", Rex Merry Monarch of Misrule again dons his royal robes and jewel studded scepter to rule a frenzied populace, when the long awaited day arrives.
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago
Mardi Gras Postcard
Era: 1958 Curt Teich
Description: A colorful Mardi Gras Float pausing in front of one of many reviewing stands lining the sidewalk, along the route of this colorful and historic pageant, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Publisher: Curt Teich, Chicago

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