| Summary: | Color print of a "Mardi Gras" parade in Mobile, AL. Downtown street lined with people. Parade float, brightly decorated, passing by with "Mardi Gras" participates aboard. Night parade with mule-drawn float. Adults and children watching the parade from the street. Postmarked February 22, 1952. Divided back postcard. Printed on front: 'A mule-drawn float in one of Mobile's recent Mardi Gras night parades, Mobile, Alabama -38. Mardi Gras - The legend of the Mardi Gras that originated in Europe is a later outgrowth here of Mobile's first mystic society which is known as the famous old "Cowbellian de Rakins." This organization held its first celebration on New Year's Eve in 1831. On that eventful eve young men carried cowbells and rakes noisely through the city streets; and thus was born its name. Some of the original Cowbellians succeeded in 1842 to visit New Orleans en masse to present the first Mardi Gras ball of that city.' Printed on back: 'Published by Carter News Agency, Mobile, Ala. - Chamber of Commerce Photo, "Natural Color Card" made by E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis. - CIY.'Written on back: 'Mobile 2/25/52 I'm on a Mobile survey, Here at azales Show. Also Mardi Gras. Look out, The Wild West is my next stop. Friends J E M, Mrs. Lassie Key Box Kingsville Texas'
|
|---|
