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WVUE: The Carnival Collection at HNOC
February 26, 2025
WVUE Fox 8 interviewed Lydia Blackmore, decorative arts curator at the Historic New Orleans Collection, about the unique artifacts from Mardi Gras history that are preserved in HNOC's archives.
“We have documentation of Mardi Gras celebrations even before the traditional parades . . . . [including] a wonderful written description of a Mardi Gras celebration in the 1720s, by a young clerk who dressed up as a shepherdess and paraded through down with his friends!”
Lydia Blackmore, HNOC decorative arts curator
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