This handsome publication celebrates the oldest continuous Mardi Gras celebration and parades in America. Featured are historic and contemporary photographs, drawings and fanciful artwork of the embroidered, one-of-a-kind costumes for the royal monarchs, mythical floats, masks, posters, elaborate crystal encrusted crowns, scepters, coins, beads, and other Mardi Gras memorabilia. Included are a series of stories that describe the origins of Mardi Gras from the first drunken sailor who tied bells to a rake wandering the streets through the numerous secret societies and balls to the formation of the historic African-American Mardi Gras Association.

ISBN – 978-1-893174-08-5
Published by the Mobile Museum of Art
Authors: Steve Joynt, Cartledge Weeden Blackwell III, Scotty E. Kirkland and Karyn Kay Zweifel
Format: soft cover
Dimensions: 7″ x 11″
88 page plus cover / 114 illustrations
Publication year: 2014
soft cover price: $16.95
order number: FAP-135-S

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