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New Orleans Baby Dolls Bless The Streets
The New Orleans Baby Dolls held their annual “Blessing of The Streets” on Saturday, May 1, at their annual gathering on the North Peters side of the New Orleans Jazz Museum. The ceremony serves as a welcoming induction for new members and a reunion for women who continue to represent a Mardi Gras masking tradition that has evolved over more than a century.
In her definitive book on the cultural practice,
Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans, Kim Vaz-Deville chronicles Baby Dolls from their origins in Black Storyville, dating back to 1912. In a 2105 article for