Fred Stone Orchestra

Members of Fred Stone's ragtime band posed with their instruments. Handwritten on card on mat back: "Row 1 - Ed Beeler, --- Lindsay, Ben Shook, Fred Stone, Walsh Stone; Row 2 - Roy Smith [crossed out], ---, ---, Ji, Hayes, Jack Johnson, Roy Smith; Row 3 - Sam Russell, Joe Johnson, Oscar Solomon, Walter Johnson, Willie [crossed out] Tyler, Charlie Stone; Row 4 - Clyde Hayes, --- Buckner, ---, Charlie Griffin, John Smallwood, Hayes-Smith." Originally marked as Ben Shook's band; both Stone and Shook were members of Theodore Finney's band and started bands later. Mat broken and torn; photograph damaged.