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Mardi Gras Collection

Collection 80

Mardi Gras. Collection, 1939, 1953–2012, n.d.

13 feet, 10 inches; oversize

The Mardi Gras Collection contains materials derived from various sources, with information primarily on two organizations: the Lafayette Town House-Order of Troubadours and the Southwest Louisiana Mardi Gras Association. There are pageant programs for both organizations. Other items of the Order of Troubadours include notebooks containing publicity, pageant scripts, invitations, and photographs. There are seven scrapbooks, which contain pageant programs, invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, souvenirs, etc. The collection includes material and artifacts about other organizations, such as the Krewe of Attakapas, Krewe of Oberon, and Brigands de Lafitte. Additionally, this collection, an LGBTQ resource and part of the LGBTQ+ Archives Project at UL Lafayette, contains materials from or about LGBTQ+ organizations such as the Krewes of Armeinius, Petronius, and Apollo.

Lyle Williams, Mario Mamalakis, and others donated this collection.

Series:

A. Lafayette Town House Order of Troubadours [LTH]
  1. History 1-01
  2. Pageant Programs 1-02 through 1-41
  3. Publicity/Scripts 2-01 through 3-19
  4. Costume Sketches 3-20
  5. Photographs  
    a. Dated 3-21 through 4-05
    b. Undated 4-06 through 4-12
  6. Scrapbooks Boxes 6 through 12
         
B. Southwest Louisiana Mardi Gras Association [SWLMGA]
  1. Pageant Programs 4-13 through 4-40
  2. Miscellaneous 5-01
         
C. Programs Arranged by Year  
  1. LTH and SWLMGA 5-02 through 5-29
         
D. Other Organizations  
  1. Krewes 5-30 through 5-40
  2. Washington DC LA Mardi Gras Ball 5-41 through 5-45
  3. Crowley Carnival Ball 5-46
  4. Invitations 5-47
       
E. Oversize Box 13; Map Case 40-02

Inventory:

A. Lafayette Town House [LTH] Order of Troubadours
  1. History
1-01 Material on LTH and Order of Troubadours
    includes: Lyle Williams, "A Brief Look at the Town Balls, 1953-1968." 72 pp, typescript; list of royalty
    material on LTH: clippings; photographs; legal documents related to Spanish Lake Club
     
A. Lafayette Town House [LTH] Order of Troubadours
  2. Pageant Programs
1-02 LTH Pageant program, 1953
1-03 Pageant program, 1954
1-04 Pageant program, 1955
1-05 Pageant program, 1956
1-06 Pageant program, 1957
1-07 Pageant program, 1958
1-08 Pageant program, 1959
1-09 Pageant program, 1960
1-10 Pageant program, 1961
1-11 Pageant program, 1962
1-12 Pageant program, 1963
1-13 Pageant program, 1963
1-14 Pageant program, 1964
1-15 Pageant program, 1965
1-16 Pageant program, 1966
1-17 Pageant program, 1967
1-18 Pageant program, 1968
1-19 Pageant program, 1969
1-20 Pageant program, 1970
1-21 Pageant program, 1971
1-22 Pageant program, 1972
1-23 Pageant program, 1973
1-24 Pageant program, 1974
1-25 Pageant program, 1975
1-26 Pageant program, 1976
1-27 Pageant program, 1977
1-28 Pageant program, 1978
1-29 Pageant program, 1979
1-30 Pageant program, 1980
1-31 Pageant program, 1981
1-32 Pageant program, 1982
1-33 Pageant program, 1983
1-34 Pageant program, 1984
1-35 Pageant program, 1985
1-36 Pageant program, 1986
1-37 Pageant program, 1987
1-38 Pageant program, 1988/89
1-39 Pageant program, 1990
1-40 Pageant Program, 1993, 1994
1-41 Pageant Program, 1995, 1998, 2000
     
A. Lafayette Town House [LTH] Order of Troubadours
  3. Publicity/Scripts
2-01 Publicity/scripts, 1954
2-02 Publicity/scripts, 1955
2-03 Publicity/scripts, 1956
2-04 Publicity/scripts, 1956
2-05 Publicity/scripts, 1957
2-06 Publicity/scripts, 1958
2-07 Publicity/scripts, 1959
2-08 Publicity/scripts, 1960
2-09 Publicity/scripts, 1961
2-10 Publicity/scripts, 1961
2-11 Publicity/scripts, 1962
2-12 Publicity/scripts, 1962
2-13 Publicity/scripts, 1969
2-14 Publicity/scripts, 1970
2-15 Publicity/scripts, 1970
2-16 Publicity/scripts, 1970
2-17 Publicity/scripts, 1971
2-18 Publicity/scripts, 1972
2-19 Publicity/scripts, 1972
3-01 Publicity/scripts, 1973
3-02 Publicity/scripts, 1973
3-03 Publicity/scripts, 1974
3-04 Publicity/scripts, 1974
3-05 Publicity/scripts, 1975
3-06 Publicity/scripts, 1975
3-07 Publicity/scripts, 1976
3-08 Publicity/scripts, 1976
3-09 Publicity/scripts, 1977
3-10 Publicity/scripts, 1977
3-11 Publicity/scripts, 1978
3-12 Publicity/scripts, 1979
3-13 Publicity/scripts, 1980
3-14 Publicity/scripts, 1981
3-15 Publicity/scripts, 1982, n.d.
3-16 Publicity/scripts, 1983
3-17 Publicity/scripts, 1984
3-18 Publicity/scripts, 1985
3-19 Publicity/scripts, 1986
   
A. Lafayette Town House [LTH] Order of Troubadours
  4. Costume Sketches
3-20 LTH costume sketches, 1970
     
A. Lafayette Town House [LTH] Order of Troubadours
  5. Photographs
    a. Dated
3-21 Photographs, 1960
3-22 Photographs, 1961
3-23 Photographs, 1967
3-24 Photographs, 1968
3-25 Photographs, 1969
3-26 Photographs, 1969
3-27 Photographs, 1970
3-28 Photographs, 1971
3-29 Photographs, 1972
3-30 Photographs, 1973
4-01 Photographs, 1974
4-02 Photographs, 1975
4-03 Photographs, 1976
4-04 Photographs, 1977
4-05 Photographs, 1978
   
A. Lafayette Town House [LTH] Order of Troubadours
  5. Photographs
    b. Undated
4-06 through 4-12
  Photographs, undated
   
A. Lafayette Town House [LTH] Order of Troubadours
  6. Scrapbooks
Box 6 Scrapbook, Volume I, 1953-54
Box 7 Scrapbook, Volume II, 1955
Box 8 Scrapbook, Volume III, 1956
Box 9 Scrapbook, Volume VI, 1958
Box 10 Scrapbook, Volume VII, 1959
Box 11 Scrapbook, Volume VIII, 1960
Box 12 Scrapbook, Volume IX, 1961
   
B. Southwest Louisiana Mardi Gras Association [SWLMGA]
  1. Pageant Programs
4-13 Pageant Program, 1955
4-14 Pageant Program, 1956
4-15 Pageant Program, 1957
4-16 Pageant Program, 1958
4-17 Pageant Program, 1959
4-18 Pageant Program, 1960
4-19 Pageant Program, 1961
4-20 Pageant Program, 1962
4-21 Pageant Program, 1963/64
4-22 Pageant Program, 1965/66
4-23 Pageant Program, 1967
4-24 Pageant Program, 1968
4-25 Pageant Program, 1969
4-26 Pageant Program, 1971
4-27 Pageant Program, 1972
4-28 Pageant Program, 1974
4-29 Pageant Program, 1975
4-30 Pageant Program, 1976
4-31 Pageant Program, 1977
4-32 Pageant Program, 1979
4-33 Pageant Program, 1981/82
4-34 Pageant Program, 1984
4-35 Pageant Program, 1985
4-36 Pageant Program, 1986
4-37 Pageant Program, 1987
4-38 Pageant Program, 1989
4-39 Pageant Program, 1990
4-40 Pageant Program, 1991,1995-97, 2004
   
B. Southwest Louisiana Mardi Gras Association [SWLMGA]
  2. Miscellaneous
5-01 Certificate of Appreciation to the University of Southwestern Louisiana, n.d.
     
C. Programs Arranged by Year
5-02 LTH Pageant Program, 1953
5-03 LTH and SWLMGA, 1954
5-04 LTH, 1955
5-05 LTH, 1956
5-06 SWLMGA, 1957
5-07 LTH, 1959
5-08 LTH and SWLMGA, 1960
5-09 LTH and SWLMGA, 1962
5-10 LTH and SWLMGA, 1963
5-11 LTH, 1963
5-12 LTH, 1964
5-13 LTH, 1965
5-14 LTH, 1966
5-15 LTH and SWLMGA, 1967
5-16 LTH and SWLMGA, 1968
5-17 LTH and SWLMGA, 1969
5-18 LTH, 1970
5-19 LTH and SWLMGA, 1971
5-20 LTH and SWLMGA, 1972
5-21 LTH, 1973
5-22 LTH and SWLMGA, 1974
5-23 LTH and SWLMGA, 1975
5-24 LTH, 1976
5-25 LTH and SWLMGA, 1977
5-26 LTH, 1977
5-27 LTH, 1979
5-28 LTH, 1985
5-29 SWLMGA, 1979
     
D. Other Organizations
5-30 Brigands de Lafitte
5-31 Krewe of Attakapas
5-32 Krewe of Gabriel
5-33 Krewe of Oberon
5-34 Krewe of Armeinius Photographs, 1971
5-35 Krewe of Armeinius Photographs, 1971
5-36 Krewe of Armeinius Photographs, 1971
5-37 Krewe of Armeinius Photographs, 1971
5-38 Krewe of Armeinius Photographs, 1972
5-39 Mardi Gras Drag Queens, 1992-2012
5-40 New Roads Float, 1954
5-34 Washington, D.C. LA Mardi Gras Ball, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969 Programs
5-35 Washington, D.C. LA Mardi Gras Ball, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981 Programs
5-36 Washington, D.C. LA Mardi Gras Ball, 1982, 1983, 1984 Programs
5-37 Washington, D.C. LA Mardi Gras Ball, 1985, 1988, 1993 Programs
5-38 Washington, D.C. LA Mardi Gras Ball, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2001 Programs
5-39 First Carnival Ball, Crowley, Louisiana 22 February 1936. News clipping from the Crowley Daily Signal, Crowley, LA. Tues. March 6, 1973. (group photo of the members)
5-40 Miscellaneous: invitations to various balls
     
E. Oversize
13-01 Krewe Of Petronius XLV, New Orleans Mardi Gras 4” Cordial Shooters, 2006
13-02 Krewe of Petronius 6pcs Set of 1 oz 0.999 Rounds, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1989
13-03 Krewe of Apollo Silverplate Favor Vintage Cup, 1959
13-04 Mystic Krewe of Apollo – Shreveport Coin, 1986
   
40-02 Mardi Gras Drag Queen Poster, New Orleans [autographed by Danny Wiggins], 1995
  Newspaper: Mardi Gras on Map Before New Orleans, 1939
  Photographs of Mardi Gras Court, [2] 14” x 11”, n.d.
  Photograph of Queens in Washington, DC, n.d.