In the 1930s he, along with other photographers such as Leon Trice, Pops Whitesell, Clarence Laughlin, Phyllis Moore, etc. formed the New Orleans Camera Club to socialize and enhance their expertise. A commercial photographer; his clients were D.H. Holmes, Orleans Manufacturing, Taaka Vodka, United China, Adler's Jewelers, Tabasco (McIlhenny), NOPSI, WDSU-Channel 6, Standard Coffee, New Orleans Opera Association and many more.

Preservation Hall, the institution so integral to the American cultural and musical heritage we now know, stands on St. Peter Street in the heart of the French Quarter. The people revealed and preserved in these wonderful images by photographer, Bob Coke, were the unique musicians who shared their passion, their vision, and their hearts for years in the old historic building, the quaint venue where jazz musicians and listeners were welcome, but photographers and cameras were not.

The late C. Bennette Moore, who passed suddenly December 8, 1939 at the height of his career, was born in Sauk Center, Minnesota in 1879. As a very young man he enlisted for the Spanish-American War and following his discharge from the service, entered the employ of Emile Rivoire, famed French photographer of New Orleans. In 1904, he purchased the studio, re-named it and proceeded during the following thirty-five years to establish a reputation for portraiture which made his name known throughout the south.

Mr. Beech is a graduate of the Fred Archer School of Photography in Los Angeles, CA. He originally pursued magazine editorial photography, working through the New York Agency and Black Star Publishing. Mr. Beech later formed Industrial Photography, Inc. in New Orleans and established a reputation as a corporate photographer, the mainstay of his work being industrial, oil fields, aerials and advertising. He is now retired and living in Mandeville, Louisiana.