Visual Materials
Image of a parade of seventeen horse-drawn carnival floats, decorated with flowers, depicting fanciful scenes from the story of the wooden puppet Pinocchio written by Carlo Lorenzini (or Carlo Collodi), with each car led by a man carrying a banner with a title for the scene: "1 Momus," "2 Title," "3 The Theatre of Marionettes," "4 The Tree of Gold Pieces," "5 The Fairy with the Blue Hair," "6 The Court of the Stupid-Catchers," "7 The Serpent with the Smoking Tail," "8 Pinocchio turned Watchdog," "9 Pinocchio Rides to the Moon," "10 Geppetto's Ship," "11 The Land of the Busy Bees," "12 The Grotto of the Green Fisherman," "13 The Coach of the Naughty Boys," "14 The Country of Playthings," "15 The Island of the Blue Goat," "16 Pinocchio Finds His Father," "17 Pinocchio Becomes a Boy"; with a top left vignette of the Pinocchio with a long wooden nose standing in a wooded area with crows, a goat, and a serpent; the verso contains four pages of the "Momus Edition" of the "Carnival Bulletin" for March 2, 1916, with advertisements and text describing each of the parade cars; the newspaper and images advertise the parade floats organized by the Knights of Momus krewe for the 1916 Mardi Gras Carnival celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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