Mardi Gras
Subtitle: A Pictorial History of Carnival in New Orleans
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Published: August 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780882891606
Subjects: Customs; Places & peoples: general interest; Travel; New Orleans; Manners And Customs; History - General History; Social life and customs; Pictorials; New Orleans (La.); Customs & Traditions; United States - General; Festivals; Carnival; Louisiana; Pictorial works
First sentence: Starting just after Christmas and continuing until Lent, the carnival season in New Orleans, Louisiana, is observed with some ninety large-scale tableau balls and more than fifty street parades, culminating in the elaborate Rex pageant on Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), or Shrove Tuesday.