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    • Three Girl Maskers

    • Three Girl Maskers

    • Carnival; Costumes; Clothing & dress; Spectators; Commercial streets

    • View of three carnival maskers posed on Canal Street on Mardi Gras Day. Wearing full-face masks, the subjects are standing in the 800 block near the Boston Club in the Central Business District with the river to their backs. Formally-attired men...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Elk Dedication Scene

    • Elk Dedication Scene

    • Dedications; Podiums; Spectators; Crowds; Flags; Men

    • View of the dedication event of the second Elks Home at 127 Elks Place in the Central Business District. The building was designed by Rathbone DeBuys (1875-1960) and Edgar A. Christy (1880-1959). Officers of the Benevolent and Protective Order of...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Elk Dedication

    • Elk Dedication

    • Dedications; Podiums; Spectators; Crowds; Flags; Men

    • View of the dedication event of the second Elks Home, 127 Elks Place in the Central Business District. The building was designed by Rathbone DuBuys (1875-1960) and Edgar A. Christy (1880-1959). Officers fo the Benevolent and Protective Order of...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Elk Dedication

    • Elk Dedication

    • Dedications; Podiums; Spectators; Crowds; Flags; Men

    • View of the dedication event of the second Elks Home, 127 Elks Place in the Central Business District. The building was designed by Rathbone DuBuys (1875-1960) and Edgar A. Christy (1880-1959). Officers fo the Benevolent and Protective Order of...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Canal and Burgundy Streets

    • Canal and Burgundy Streets

    • Architecture; Buildings; Commercial streets

    • Partial view of the downtown side of the 900 and 1000 blocks of Canal Street where it meets Burgundy in the Central Business District. A manual (police-operated) traffic control semaphore can be seen in the median or neutral ground, adjacent to a...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Sailor Boy at Taylor Playground

    • Sailor Boy at Taylor Playground

    • Children; Costumes; Festivals; Floats (Parades); Flags; Parades & processions; Police

    • View of floats at the Children's May Festival held on May 13, 1917 at Taylor Playground, located on Washington Avenue and Derbigny Street in the Broadmoor neighborhood. A boy at the right is pulling a flower-decorated float depicting a ship. ...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Elk Dedication

    • Elk Dedication

    • Dedications; Podiums; Spectators; Crowds; Flags; Men

    • View of the dedication event of the second Elks Home at 127 Elks Place in the Central Business District. The building was designed by Rathbone DeBuys (1875-1960) and Edgar A. Christy (1880-1959). Officers of the Benevolent and Protective Order of...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Elk Dedication

    • Elk Dedication

    • Dedications; Podiums; Spectators; Crowds; Flags; Men

    • View of the dedication event of the second Elks Home at 127 Elks Place in the Central Business District. The building was designed by Rathbone DeBuys (1875-1960) and Edgar A. Christy (1880-1959). Officers of the Benevolent and Protective Order of...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Algiers Float

    • Algiers Float

    • Children; Festivals; Floats (Parades); Parades & processions

    • View of a decorated float, identified as the Algiers Float, from the Algiers Playground. Float making was part of the annual Children's Festival and various playgrounds in New Orleans participated. The location of this event is the Saint Roch...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Pickwick Club at Night

    • Pickwick Club at Night

    • Carnival; Electric lighting; Night photographs; Commercial streets

    • Taken on Mardi Gras night, this view shows the Pickwick Club, located at 1030 Canal Street in the Central Business District. The building is strung with many lights and has a rather large viewing stand out front. Buildings on either side of the...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Boston Club at Night

    • Boston Club at Night

    • Carnival; Commercial buildings; Electric lighting; Night photography

    • Taken on Mardi Gras night, this view shows the Boston Club, located at 824 Canal Street in the Central Business District. The building is strung with many lights and a large viewing stand is seen in front. The Macheca Building at 828 Canal is...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • Rivoli

    • Rivoli

    • Architecture; Theaters; Residential streets;

    • View of the Rivoli Theatre, located at 2431 Kerlerec Street (between Dorgenois and Rocheblave Streets) in the Seventh Ward. The Rivoli opened around 1920 and operated until the early 1960s. It has since been demolished. An overgrown lot is seen...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection
    • American Legion Fiesta

    • American Legion Fiesta

    • Circuses & shows; Circus posters; Circus performers;Spectators

    • View of the American Legion Fiesta, an outdoor circus or carnival located on South Claiborne Avenue between Canal Street and Tulane Avenue in the Mid-city neighborhood. A costumed woman and several men stand on a platform in front of a crowd of...
    • John T. Mendes Photograph Collection

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