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Alma Gluck (May 11, 1884 – October 27, 1938) was a Romanian-born American soprano. She was the wife of Efrem Zimbalist.

Thanks for this information Richard Norton. We'll add some of it to the record the next time we update.

There's a date, 8/3/17, scratched into the back of the negative.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Gluck

With daughter Maria , see:

Possibly taken on Fishers Island, at eastern end of Long Island Sound. According to fishersisland.net/hlf-museum-files-g-b-linderman-mansion/ Zimbalist and Gluck rented the G.B.Linderman house in 1917 for the summer and bought the house in February 1918.

Thanks to all of you for connecting these photographs. We'll add some of the information to the record the next time we update.

If I'm correctly seeing the silhouette of a mountain range in background, this photo was definitely not taken on Fishers Island. Just as importantly, the porch does not match the one at the former G.B. Linderman house. Pierce Rafferty, director, Henry L. Ferguson Museum, Fishers Island, NY

Sophie Braslau, American contralto www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/15434393504/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3066020126/

Sophie Braslau (1892-1935) was a contralto prominent in United States opera, starting with her debut in New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1913 when she was just 21 years of age. [1] In her obituary The New York Times wrote, "The singer considered as her greatest triumph an experience during a rehearsal for a concert at Richmond, Va., where she had been sent to substitute for Mme. Louise Homer. After an introduction to the musicians in the empty auditorium, she sang an aria for rehearsal."

"I finished and there came a dead silence," she recalled later, "quickly followed by the strangest sound I had ever heard.  The musicians tapped their music stands with their bows or clapped their hands." In a few seconds it seemed as if pandemonium had let loose, and how happy I was! It was really the finest moment of my life. My mother was there, and it seemed to me that this was her triumph, for the evening concert was a great success and this was the first big joy she had experienced after her many years of devoted supervision."

(Many photographs of Mme. Homer can be seen in the LOC Bain Collection here.) There are currently nine photographs of Sophie Braslau in the LOC Bain Collection from c.1910-1915 here.)

Thanks Pixel Wrangler, we'll update her catalog records.