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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.
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.
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.
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).