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1995

Format:	Book
Author:	Mitchell, Reid.
Title:	All on a Mardi Gras day : episodes in the history of New Orleans Carnival / Reid Mitchell.
Publisher, Date:	Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1995.
Description:	243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	Chronicles the history and meaning of Mardi Gras through a collection of true stories of Carnival, telling of the first Rex parade, the organization of Comus, the 1908 brawl between African-American and white New Orleanians, and other memorable events.
Subjects:	Carnival -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History. New Orleans (La.) -- History.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index.
Contents:	Creoles and Americans -- African-Creoles -- Americans and immigrants -- Rex -- Comus -- Northerners -- High society -- Mardi Gras Indians -- Mardi Gras queens -- Louis Armstrong's Mardi Gras -- New Orleanians -- Zulu.
LCCN:	94028098
ISBN:	067401622X 9780674016224 9780674016231 0674016238
Other Number:	30700862
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Control Number:	81811
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Call Number:	394.25 Mitchell

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