Robert Runyon photos of African -Americans in Rio Grande Valley

1921 The King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra - Robert Runyon photo

The King Carter and Jazzing Orchestra is an early jazz band from Houston that may have been in Brownsville when Robert Runyon took this photograph.  Their jazz ensemble includes a trombone, trumpet, drums, violin and bass.

If Brownsville Herald archives were searched for January 1921 (this photo is dated as that) might confirm it but I don't think those years are available.  These players were coming up around the same time as Louie Armstrong but there isn't much info on them online so far.  

The The King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra was one of the first Jazz groups to come out and was one of the first to give the swinging type of music that people had not heard before.The Jazz Age(Feb 27 2013)

 Charley Allen of Brownsville, Texas

 E. C. Collins, Kingsville Texas, May 16 1920 RUN04924

Male portrait The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection 06888 courtesy of The Center for American History The University of Texas at Austin

There is another photo of railroad worker in work clothing holding lamp photographed in Runyon studio but  we need a scan of it.  :/