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Knights of Momus 1873 Mardi Gras invitation

Wonderful & funny typeforms made up of clowns & musicians & animals &c. - performers in the Mardi Gras parade.

The invitation image is from a NEW digital collection out of the Memphis Library, Tennessee. 

The diverse Colton Green Collection:

"... consists of primarily correspondence related to Greene's military service during the Civil War and records of the Society of Memphi.  The military correspondence includes hand-drawn maps of some of the areas in the Trans-Mississippi Military District where Greene took part in military actions and a series of letters and depositions concerning the "mule imbroglio."  In 1864, Greene was accused and later found innocent of encouraging officers under his command to disobey an order that required all soldiers to turn over their mules to the government.  The portion of the collection related to Mardi Gras includes receipts, bills, correspondence, invitations, parade programs, sketches and items related to artists hired by the Memphi to decorate for the celebrations."

the poetry slam

the music, the lyrics

are who I truly am.

Watching my elders

not always older

i watch his words burn

I see his eyes smolder

he changes his pitch

adding dramatic pauses...

I see the passion

in every one of his

clauses.

Sometimes I feel

scared and choked up

don't know what to say

but I release; let go,

and the fear falls away.

The Poetry Slam.

The Poetry Slam.

Now is when I

look into the croud and tell them...

Here I am.

--Mathieu White