Mardi Gras Beads Displays and Dragons

Mardi Gras Beads Displays and Dragons. Public Domain ClipArt Stock Photos. Title: Mardi Gras beads hang in a tree for weeks after Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Date Created / Published: 2010 February 14.

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 05289 (ONLINE) [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Subjects: United States -- Alabama--Mobile. Mardi Gras beads. America.

"Mardi Gras" "Mardi Gras season", "Fat Tuesday" and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Epiphany or Kings day and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday.

Mardi Gras Beads

Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday, referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which begins on Ash Wednesday. The day is sometimes referred to as Shrove Tuesday, from the word shrive, meaning "confess."

Mardi Gras displays and details in store windows and cast iron during the Mardi Gras season in Mobile, Alabama.

Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between and covered with various flavors of chocolate) are thrown from the floats.

Mardi Gras displays and details in store windows during the Mardi Gras season in Mobile, Alabama.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama. Mardi Gras Watchmen Rorschach

Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday

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Mardi Gras French Quarter

Title: Details in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Date Created / Published: 2011 March 7. Medium: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-11685 (original digital file)

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Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 11685 (ONLINE) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Photograph taked during the 2011 Mardi Gras celebration. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Subjects: United States--Louisiana--New Orleans. Mardi Gras. French Quarter. America. Format: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020. Collections: Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive. Part of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

About the Carol M. Highsmith Archive: Highsmith, a distinguished and richly-published American photographer, has donated her work to the Library of Congress since 1992. Starting in 2002, Highsmith provided scans or photographs she shot digitally with new donations to allow rapid online access throughout the world. Her generosity in dedicating the rights to the American people for copyright free access also makes this Archive a very special visual resource. +sookie tex

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Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana. Public Domain ClipArt Stock Photos and Images. Title: Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana, a few months after Hurricane Katrina.

Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Date Created / Published: 2006 March 1. Medium: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-04033 (original digital file)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Ms. Highsmith has stipulated that her photographs are in the public domain. Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 04323 (ONLINE) [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print.

Notes: Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010:031). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 04033 (ONLINE) [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes:
* Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer.
* Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
* Gift and purchase ; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010:031).
* Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
* Photographer's choice (America project).

Subjects: * United States--Louisiana--New Orleans. * Mardi Gras. * America.

Format: * Digital photographs--Color--2000-2010.

Collections: * Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive

Part of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Mardi Gras New Orleans

Mardi Gras New Orleans. Title: Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 23. Publisher: Re-published by Peck and Newton, 1905. Original: from the University of Michigan, Digitized: Dec 4, 2008. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN P. PEMBERTON At Mardi Gras time, when the whole city is metamorphosed into a scene of revelry, when serious things are laid aside for a time and the spirit of carnival is abroad. This Image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1924 are now in the public domain.

Mardi Gras Carnival Procession

Mardi Gras Carnival Procession Leeds West Indian Carnival Procession, 2008. Harehills and Chapeltown. 25 August 2008. I (Chemical Engineer), the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: I (Chemical Engineer) grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

Carnival. Carnival is the season between Twelfth Night and Lent. It is the gayest season of the year in New Orleans, the climax being reached by the costly festivities of Mardi Gras, "fat Tuesday," the eve of Ash Wednesday. The name "Carnival" is derived from two Latin words "carne," "flesh," and "vale," "farewell," hence " farewell to the flesh"; the pleasures of "carnival" are a gay good-by to the flesh which is to be mortified during the penitential season of Lent.

Carnival is of pagan origin. The Romans celebrated the feast of the Pastoral god, Lupercus, on February 15th; goats were sacrificed and two youths clothed in goat skins ran

through the streets hitting with leather thongs the persons they met. The celebration in modified form was kept by the Christian Romans and has been continued to the present day. The custom spread from Rome to other places. New Orleans adopted the Carnival from Paris, but has improved upon it so greatly, that, today, her Carnival is the most noted in the world. The brilliant balls and gorgeous pageants of the last week of Carnival annually attract thousands of visitors to the hospitable metropolis of the Southland.

The custom of having pageants reproducing scenes from history, literature, or art, by means of gorgeously decorated floats was introduced into New Orleans from Mobile. In 1831, an organization of Mobile known as the "Cowbellions," held the first parade of the kind in America.

The Mystic Krewe of Comus was the first to delight the populace of New Orleans by its appearance in the streets. In 1857, they presented scenes from Milton's "Paradise Lost" and then repaired to the old Varieties Theatre for the grand ball with which they entertained their more intimate friends. This merry god and his court annually parade in exquisitely artistic guise in the evening of Mardi Gras; their ball later at the French Opera House is the climax andclose of the brilliant social season.

TEXT CREDIT: Title The New Orleans book. Authors: Emma Cecilia Richey, Evelina Prescott Kean, New Orleans (La.). Board of School Directors. Edition 2. Publisher: Searcy & Pfaff, 1919 Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Feb 12, 2009
Length 156 pages.