Picture of the week

Instantaneous daguerreotype of the Dwight Doolittle Orchestra, shot during a rehearsal in 1913 for their show at the Savoy, intriguingly, none of its members was named Dwight Doolittle.

The percussionist, Quinn King, hides morphine, undistilled liquor and laudanum in the bass drum, banned substances back then in 779 countries, while the pianist is the uncle of Elton John, Rigobert John-Cremas, later incarcerated for diverse crimes against the modesty (he photographed the calves of a damsel, and showed publicly his eggs at the embassy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).

Note the strange device in the instrument of the vibraphonist, Penelopo Chaplin, which seems to be a small kettle or pava to prepare mate cimarrón.

Both trombonists (standing, centre) were the brothers Judas and Arto Buncombe, also known as "the duet of two". In the 1930s, they abandoned the music, and re-started their careers as stand-up comedians, with emphasis on racist jokes:
received a posthumous Golden Globe in 1975, for their successful TV series "Nigger Please": unfortunately both died lynched some months before in the Bronx by anonymous mob

the curious black artifact on the floor (centre) seems to be an enema.