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Mardi Gras costumes on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1971. This image is from…

Vintage photo of two people in Mardi Gras costumes on Bourbon Street in 1971—one dressed as a mouse with large ears, the other as a block of yellow cheese with a face peeking through a hole.

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Do You Know What it Means

Mardi Gras costumes on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1971.

This image is from the archive of Ron Chapman, Professor of History at Nunez Community College. Nunez Community College is located in Chalmette, in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. In 2005 it was heavily damaged by flooding due to Hurricane Katrina.

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Item 26242

Citation

“Mardi Gras costumes on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1971. This image is from…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26242.

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