Marie Léda HINKS

BIRTH: 30 DEC 1886, New Orleans,La.
DEATH: 3 DEC 1980, New Orleans,La. [S21]

Family - Famille1: Louis Ovide Henry Gelpi PLAUCHÉ

MARRIAGE: 1 OCT 1907, New Orleans,La.

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BIOGRAPHY: In 1958, Léda Plauché donated a large collection of Mardi Gras costume and float designs and a smaller collection of photographs to the Louisiana Department (now Division) of New Orleans Public Library. For many years, it was believed that the all of the designs were Mrs. Plauché's work, but it has since become clear that although many were done by Léda Plauché herself, a large number were the work of an earlier designer, Bror Anders Wikstrom. A smaller group of drawings cannot be positively identified as the work of either Plauché or Wikstrom. The Wikstrom designs and the unidentified designs were apparently in Mrs. Plauché's possession and were donated by her along with her own drawings.
Léda Hincks Plauché (Mrs. Henry Plauché) was born in New Orleans in 1886. She designed her first Carnival ball for the Krewe of Nereus in 1916 and, over the next forty years, she included the krewes of Rex, Proteus, Comus, and Momus among her clients. Mrs. Plauché was also the proprietor of the Green Orchid gift shop in the French Quarter. She died in New Orleans in 1980.
Visit her web pages at the New Orleans Public Library.

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