File:Promiscuous Maskers on Canal Street - New Orleans Mardi Gras 1893.jpg

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"Promiscuous Maskers on Canal Street". Scene of New Orleans Mardi Gras, 1893, with partying street maskers & costumers with the Henry Clay Statue at Canal Street & St. Charles Avenue in the background.

19th century engraving showing a wide urban street filled with throngs of people partying, most in various costumes. A statue of standing man in center background; at sides are multi-story buildings flying Carnival flags. At front left a man in a devil mask cavorts with a woman wearing a domino mask and a cocked hat. Beside them a woman in a lowcut dress with bare limbs and domino mask blows a party horn while waving a stick with a bladder. Behind her is a man in full face mask and pointed clown hat; to center person wearing full head mask in form of alligator head. Elsewhere in the crowd masks are abundant as are bicorn, tricorn, and other unusual hats.
Date Mardi Gras Day 1893
Source Engraving by B. West Clinedinst for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
Author B. West Clinedinst
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