admirals

That will be July 1914 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Jack_Fletcher

Retired at last This is the change of command ceremony aboard USS Wyoming (BB-32) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York Naval Shipyard - NYNSY) as Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher (uncle of WWII-era Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher) took command of the Atlantic Fleet on September 16, 1914. See: www.navsource.org/archives/01/32a.htm and NH 95153 - Atlantic Fleet change of command ceremonies, on board USS Wyoming, 1914.

Retired at last and TVL 1970: Thanks for providing the context for this image, and more complete information on Adm. Fletcher. (And thank you for linking to sources!) We will add more details to this record when we update.

Robley Dunglison Evans (1846-1912), Civil War veteran, commanded a battleship during the Spanish-American War, commanded the Atlantic Fleet from 1905, called "Fighting Bob." There have been two US Navy destroyers named for Evans: www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-e/rd-evans.htm

The Japanese Admiral at right is not "Yamamota", but rather "Yamamoto". He is not to be confused with Admiral Isoroku Yamamato, famous of WW Two exploits. He is Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, or Admiral Count Yamamoto Gonbee. From wikipedia: "Yamamoto's subsequent rise through the ranks was rapid: rear admiral (1895); vice admiral and Navy Minister (1898). He was raised to the rank of danshaku (baron) under the kazoku peerage system in 1902; and he was promoted to the rank of admiral in 1904. As Minister of the Navy during the Russo-Japanese War, Yamamoto showed strong leadership and was responsible for appointing Tōgō Heihachirō as commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. He gave voice to Tōgō's reports when he read his aloud his reports from the war to the assembled Diet.[2] Yamamoto was elevated to hakushaku (count) in 1907. Count Yamamoto served as Prime Minister in 1913-14." (ref. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamamoto_Gonnohy%c5%8de ) This photograph was almost certainly taken on July 10 or on July 11, 1907. The two admirals met on both those days inthe midst of Admiral Baron Yamamoto's July 1907 trip to the USA. The met at the New York Navy Yard, and at a luncheon at the hotel Astor on July 11. Note the references to Admiral Baron Yamamato in this NYT article of the next day: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CE7D7133EE033A... See also the NYT of July 11, 1907: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9405E1DC1738E033A... 1907&st=cse

Thanks for the information (and correct spelling of Yamamoto's name!) It's helpful to know what likely made the photo newsworthy for the Bain News Service. Another photo held by the Library of Congress, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c03788 copyrighted by Bain in 1907 is inscribed 7/10/07 so your suspicions about the occasion are correct. (That photo was incorrectly attributed as Isoroku Yamamoto but the record has been corrected and will soon appear in the public catalog correctly.) The date in reverse on the upper edge of the negative, 8/24/13, may indicate that the photo was used when Yamamoto Gonnohyōe became prime minister. We'll adjust the description when we update the record

I think the auto is a Packard. I'll guess c. 1908 - 1911

Would this be pre-WWI?

Car is sporting a 1912 Maryland license plate.

Those are Naval admirals' uniforms. I wonder if it is associated with this naval visit: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3512136817/