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Carnival edition of the Picayune March 9th 1886 : Krewe of Proteus procession subject visions of other worlds

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Title: Carnival edition of the Picayune March 9th 1886 : Krewe of Proteus procession subject visions of other worlds
Alternative Title: Daily Picayune : carnival edition.
Creator: T. Fitzwilliam & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a parade of eighteen horse-drawn carnival floats, depicting fanciful scenes of the terrain and extraterrestrial creatures of planets and celestial objects inhabited with various sea creatures, reptiles, insects, plants, pineapples, cactuses, a horned instrument, each with a numbered caption: "No. 1 Proteus," "No. 2 The Sun," "No. 3. Mercury," "No. 4. Venus," "No. 5. The Moon," "No. 6. Mars," "No. 7. Juno," "No. 8. Vesta," "No. 9. Harmonia," "No. 10. Flora," "No. 11. A Comet," "No. 12 Iris," "No. 13. Ceres," "No. 14. Amphitrite," "No. 15. Jupiter," "No. 16. Saturn," "No. 17. Uranus," "No. 18. Neptune"; the verso contains four pages of the "Carnival Edition" of "The Daily Picayune" for March 9, 1886, with advertisements and text describing each of the parade cars; the newspaper and images advertise the parade floats organized by the krewe of Proteus for the 1886 Mardi Gras Carnival celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Date based on item title. "Lithographed by T. Fitzwilliam & Co. 62 Camp St. New Orleans"--text, upper left of image. Carnival edition. / The Daily Picayune / New Orleans. Tuesday. March 9, 1886."--text, newspaper masthead on print verso.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 71.44 x 109.38 cm (28 1/8 x 43 1/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_001693
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2322
Subject: Carnival--Pictorial works
Carnival--Louisiana--New Orleans
Life on other planets--Pictorial works
Parades--Pictorial works
Planets--Pictorial works
Solar system--Pictorial works
Krewe of Proteus
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Carnival posters. (local)
Place: New Orleans (La.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Balls and Carnivals
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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