Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. Decorated floats at a parade on Mardi Gras. Krewe participants in elaborate costumes throw trinkets to spectators. Some spectators catch Mardi Gras throws from passing floats. A band plays in the parade. People cheer as decorated floats move past them on the streets of New Orleans.
A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. Ships underway in the Mississippi River as they enter a port of New Orleans. Buildings at the port.
A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. Dykes and levies along the edge of sea water keeping flood waters out of New Orleans. A building in the background.
A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. A Spanish Cruiser named Infanta Isabel from Cadiz and a freighter named Selene Holland in the harbor. Various ships, tugs, freighters, barges with cranes in the harbor. The 3 mast sailing ship or barque SV John H. Kirby of New Orleans at port (this is shortly before SV John H Kirby was sunk by the German armed merchant raider SMS Wolf in December 1917 during World War I)
A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. A British merchant ship with a naval gun aboard it (anti submarine defense in World War I) in New Orleans harbor. Various steamships in the harbor including Lisboa, Oxen Sverige and Malfalda Norge.
African American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong in the United States. Armstrong speaking during an interview. He says that he was born in 1900, in "James Alley." (He was actually born in 1901.) A large crowd gathered likely on Canal Street in New Orleans during Mardi Gras circa 1930s. A large float in the parade. Highlights of Louis's life. Louis Armstrong's childhood home, shortly before it was demolished in the mid-1960s. In 1901, Louis Armstrong is born on August 4th, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mary (Mayann) and William Armstrong. A photograph of Louis with his mother, Mayann, and sister, Mama Lucy (Beatrice), c. 1922. View of the French Quarter in New Orleans, with characteristic ironwork and porches. A horse carriage and a vehicle moving down a city street. A view of Louis Armstrong's teachers Bunk Johnson, Joe 'King' Oliver and others. Louis Armstrong says that he has played with all the best musicians. Louis Armstrong seated with a trumpet in his hand and other musicians standing beside him.
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