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Carnival edition of the Picayune March 9th 1886 : Krewe of Proteus procession subject visions of other worlds

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Image of a parade of eighteen horse-drawn carnival floats, depicting fanciful scenes of the terrain and extraterrestrial creatures of planets and celestial objects inhabited with various sea creatures, reptiles, insects, plants, pineapples, cactuses, a horned instrument, each with a numbered caption: "No. 1 Proteus," "No. 2 The Sun," "No. 3. Mercury," "No. 4. Venus," "No. 5. The Moon," "No. 6. Mars," "No. 7. Juno," "No. 8. Vesta," "No. 9. Harmonia," "No. 10. Flora," "No. 11. A Comet," "No. 12 Iris," "No. 13. Ceres," "No. 14. Amphitrite," "No. 15. Jupiter," "No. 16. Saturn," "No. 17. Uranus," "No. 18. Neptune"; the verso contains four pages of the "Carnival Edition" of "The Daily Picayune" for March 9, 1886, with advertisements and text describing each of the parade cars; the newspaper and images advertise the parade floats organized by the krewe of Proteus for the 1886 Mardi Gras Carnival celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Date
1886
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priJLC_ENT_001693
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