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    • Red Cross Sign on Canal Street

    • Red Cross Sign on Canal Street

    • Commercial streets; Street railroads; Signs (Notices); Pedestrians

    • View made on Canal Street showing an overhead banner style sign that reads "Help! Help! For Pity's Sake Help!" on either side of a Red Cross nurse with outstretched arms. The sign is placed high above the streetcar tracks where overhead lighting...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Side View of NC-4 Front

    • Side View of NC-4 Front

    • Seaplanes; Rivers; Waterfronts; Spectators

    • Side view of Navy/Curtiss flying boat NC-4 moored in the Mississippi River near Jackson Avenue in the Uptown section of New Orleans. Crew members can be seen aboard the flying boat and one man is seen climbing onto the aircraft's upper wing. A...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • U.S.A. Maskers

    • U.S.A. Maskers

    • Carnival; Costumes; Clothing & dress; Cross dressing; Spectators; Automobiles

    • View looking towards the river from the 500 block of Canal Street that shows a group of seven women or cross-dressers. They wear patriotically inspired outfits consisting of striped skirts and star blouses. They all wear full-face masks and a sash...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Female Impersonator

    • Female Impersonator

    • Carnival; Costumes; Clothing & dress; Cross dressing; Commercial streets

    • View of a man dressed as a woman on Mardi Gras Day, 1925. The exact location is unknown but suggests Baronne Street in the Central Business District. The impersonator stands in front of a burned out building that has advertisements for a variety...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Cross Word Puzzle

    • Cross Word Puzzle

    • Carnival; Costumes; Floats (parades); Spectators

    • View made around the 700 block of Saint Charles Avenue, where it intersects Julia, on Mardi Gras Day 1925. The marching group, The Jefferson City Buzzards are seen parading in the street, but the focus of the view is what appears to be a movable,...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • 100 Block of North Rampart Street

    • 100 Block of North Rampart Street

    • Street railroads; Architecture; Buildings; Costumes

    • View made in the 100 block of North Rampart Street. It shows streetcar number 25 for the Dauphine line in front of the Arlington Restaurant and Randolph's Barber Shop at 108 North Rampart. The view extends towards Canal Street where a crowd is...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Male Maskers Dressed as Bathing Girls

    • Male Maskers Dressed as Bathing Girls

    • Carnival; Costumes; Clothing & dress; Cross dressing; Spectators

    • View of three, large, masked men or cross-dressers. They pose as a group at the corner of Canal and Dauphine Streets diagonally in front of the Maison Blanche Building at 901 Canal. A small group of older men wearing business suits and hats stand...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Female Impersonator

    • Female Impersonator

    • Carnival; Costumes; Clothing & dress; Cross dressing

    • View made on Mardi Gras Day that shows a cross-dressed man who is kicking and lifting the hem of his dress. The same person seen in 2003.182.159; the man is masked and attired as a little girl. He wears a floral garland on his wig and a workman's...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Playground Floats

    • Playground Floats

    • Children; Flowers; Festivals; Floats (Parades); Spectators

    • View of two childrens' floats. One shows a little girl dressed as a Red Cross nurse and sitting on a tent-like A-frame float . The other shows another small girl sitting on a float covered with flowers and American Flags pulled by a goat. A police...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Female Impersonator Leaning Against Car

    • Female Impersonator Leaning Against Car

    • Carnival; Costumes; Clothing & dress; Cross dressing; Spectators; Automobiles

    • Shown is a cross-dressed man, striking a flirtatious pose and waving a shawl as he stands between two parked automobiles. Three men are standing to the subject's right. The cross-dressed man is wearing floral pom-pom slippers, harem pants, a...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Female Impersonator

    • Female Impersonator

    • Carnival; Costumes; Clothing & dress; Cross dressing; Street railroads; Commercial buildings

    • View made on Mardi Grad Day, that shows a large, cross-dressed man cavorting on the median in front of the Katz and Besthoff pharmacy at 841 Canal Street at the corner of Dauphine in the Central Business District. The Maison Blanche building at 901...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection

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