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This is Lewisohn Stadium at City College of New York, built in 1915 demolished in 1973, with Shepard Hall (still standing) in the background. In September, 1916, Metropolitan Opera singers put on two operas at the stadium, Wagner's 'Die Walküre ' and a second program of 'Cavalleria Rusticana' and 'Pagliacci.' Hard to say which production these actors were rehearsing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewisohn_Stadium digital-archives.ccny.cuny.edu/exhibits/lostworld/lewisoh... query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C07EEDE1F3FE2... www1.ccny.cuny.edu/ci/centennial/uptown_shepard.cfm

Thanks art for all of the additional info. We'll add the date and the location to the catalog record.

Setting up for live radio broadcast, August 1922. See

Cockaday is Laurence M. Cockaday, a radio expert who had written a book on the subject in 1922. Here's a review: "Radio Telephony for Everyone," by Laurence M. Cockaday
(Stokes), Is a clear nontechnical explanation of the working theory of radio in general, and the receiver and transmitter in particular, so that the boy of sixteen and the man of sixty will read It with equal interest and satisfaction.
Mr. Cockaday. technical editor of Popular Radio and The Modulator, has studied and worked in radio telephony for fifteen years. He built one of the first broadcasting stations In the United States. During the war he served as radio instructor in the navy, and while there Invented a radio transmitter extensively used during the war. His position as technical editor on radio publications keeps him in touch with the latest developments In the field, so that readers of hls book are certain to find definite, up-to-date Information upon which to work."
The Washington Times, July 16, 1922.
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Cockaday is pictured elswhere in the Bain Collection, along with Kendall Banning who, like Cockaday, was editor of Popular Radio Magazine.:

Dr. E.E. Free (Edward Elway Free, 1883-1939), was a scientist and science journalist. His November 1939 New York Times obit began: "DR. E.E. FREE DEAD; EDITOR, SCIENTIST; Former Head of the Scientific American Aided in Discovery of Potash on Coast OVERCAME WILT IN PLANTS Conducted Studies That Led to Anti-Noise Campaign of Mayor La Guardia. Dr. Edward Elway Free, former editor of The Scientific American, who was noted for popularizing scientific subjects, died Friday night at Post Graduate Hospital, where he had undergone an operation. He had been ill for two months. His age was 56." nytimes.com/1939/11/26/archives/dr-ee-free-dead-editor-scientist-former-head-of-the-scientific.html timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/11/26/94744472...

Kendall Banning (1879-1944) pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Kendall_Banning www.findagrave.com/memorial/30211250/

Art Siegel B-59 Thank you for the information on the three men pictured.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewisohn_Stadium
"Lewisohn Stadium was an amphitheater and athletic facility built on the campus of the City College of New York (CCNY). It opened in 1915 and was demolished in 1973."

Thanks swanq, we'll update the catalog record.

Something to keep in mind with all the singers on the program for the 4th of July pageant here - No loudspeakers, no amplifiers, no public address system, not even any decent opera hall acoustics. You needed a set of lungs in those days.