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Carter Music Store Float In The Ladysmith Parade

Black and white photograph looking down at a paved street lined with people watching a trailer, decorated as a parade float the sides of which are trimmed with cedar boughs. At the front of the trailer is seated a musical band of about 15 persons being conducted by a man standing facing them, with his back to about 8 people seated at the back of the float.

Source: Ladysmith Archives

Date: 1954

The Carters owned a music store. The family played as a band at local dances and concerts in the 1950s.