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Banner Band members and friends. 1) Harold Portier holding his trumpet with two couples. 2) Harold Portier demonstrating with trumpet to two men. 3) Harold Portier as a younger man with trumpet on a porch with a small child looking on.

A band performing at the Basin Street Bluses National Jazz Foundation in New Orleans. Many people are dressed as clowns.

A cane harvester in a cane field.

Sugar cane being loaded onto a chute on (wooden platform). There are two men at the foot of the platform (carrier). One man is at the top of the platform, and a man is on the ground at the far right.

A wooden structure identified as Jeanerette Colored Elementary School, later to become the high school. Bunk Johnson was the band director for the high school.

Grand Marais School (Camillia School) class photo, taken outside of a wood frame building.

3 Photos- (c) two men cutting cane, (b) loading cane into a mule drawn wagon, (a) many empty mule drawn wagons with several wood buildings, ("Hitching up" after mid-day feeding and watering of mules)

A locomotive near a water tank with one African-American standing inside the locomotive, one man leaning on the locomotive, and an African-American boy next to the man.

Ten men (surveyors) on a boat in the Atchalafaya Basin.

Julia Street, between St. Peter and Main St., with an old car, (1920 Model) trucks, and a horse drawn hearse (probably funeral procession/funeral formation).