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For as detailed as some of our records can be, many items come to us with little or no information.

We have many images, like these, in which we are unable to identify few if any of the people or places. If you can help us with the images below, please get in touch. You can email us at laref1@library.la.gov, call us at (225) 342-4914, or use the Ask-a-Librarian feature.

This photograph is of a wedding party in Shreveport, LA.

It was taken in the early to middle 1920s.

The groom is Charles J. Brocato. The bride is Susie DeFatta.

Can you help us identify the others?

Who are these men?

Where were they when this photo was taken?

Why did they gather? And when was it?

It's all a mystery. Can you help us solve it?