Image: Comus Bloodhound 1873
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Description: Costume design for New Orleans Mardi Gras parade of the "Mistick Krewe of Comus", 1873, by Charles Briton. Theme for the parade was "Missing Links", a satire of Charles Darwin's writings, with prominent people caricatured as animals. This design caricatures Algernon Badger, Chief of the Metropolitan Police of New Orleans, as a bloodhound.
Title: Comus Bloodhound 1873
Credit: 1873 costume design for Krewe of Comus parade, New Orleans, by Charles Briton. Via copy at Tulane University Louisiana Research Collection website at: [1]
Author: Charles Briton (1841-1884)
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