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This and some nearby photos are preparations for the first live New York symphony radio broadcast. The New York herald for August 12, 1922, ran the following story: "STADIUM MUSIC BROADCAST. Symphony Orchestra Concert Sent Out First Time. Last night was the first time that a great New York symphony orchestra had its music broadcast by radio, and reports which came In during I he evening indicated that the venture was entirely successful. The special microphone developed for the occasion made It possible for the actual music of the Philharmonic Orchestra's .stadium concert to be heard over a territory with a population of 75,000,000. The broadcasting began at 9 o'clock, daylight saving time, and lasted for an hour and a half. The microphones utilized last evening were of such sensitiveness that all sound. Including the music, applause or what not. was converted into an electric current of strength that varied In accordance with the character of the sound waves that impinged upon the diaphragm." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1922-08-12/ed-... Lewisohn Stadium, College of the City of New York, built 1915, demolished 1973. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewisohn_Stadium

The New York Tribune ran a more detailed account of the broadcast. The orchestra was conducted by Willem Van Hoogstraten. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1922-08-13/ed-...

See also photo in the New-York tribune. [volume], August 27, 1922, Page 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1922-08-27/ed-...

Art Siegel B-59 Thank you both for the newspaper citations. We'll note the record.

Mabel Riegelman was an opera singer. See digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/... for a photo and adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/18785/Riegel... for a discography.

NYT of June 24, 1917 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C01E5D7123BE03AB... indicated that the B. Altman regiment of the Home Defense League, commanded by Colonel J. H. Thompson gave demonstrations of drills and Red Cross methods in the Lewisohn Stadium of the College of the City of New York the day before (June 23, 1917). Mabel Riegelman sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Dixie."

More info on Ms. Riegelman: books.google.com/books?id=KJrcN1CzFTUC&lpg=PA190&... On B. Altman & Co.: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Altman_and_Company

Thank you swanq for your research. We'll add a bit more information to the record the next time we update.

Just ran into another connection between Lewisohn Stadium and opera at www.facebook.com/MetOpera/photos/a.134969600532.229232.20...

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.