baritone

"Pasquale Amato (21 March 1878 – 12 August 1942) was an Italian operatic baritone. Amato enjoyed an international reputation but attained the peak of his fame in New York City, where he sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 until 1921."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasquale_Amato

Other Bain photos of him:

Mario and Spartaco were his brothers sons (PS: thanks to Art Siegel), see The New York Times, December 21, 1913

Not his brothers, but his sons. According to information in the Times article, the older son Spartaco was born about 1901. He was married to Egeria Guerrera Amato. etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11112009-092220/unrestrict... Mario, born about 1903, was still living in New York in 1943 when he had a scrape with the law. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F6071FFF395C167B...

B-59 and artolog: Thanks for exploring the life of the Amato family so that we can expand the descriptive information in this record.

This was part of a day-long Labor Day celebration according to The [New York} Sun. September 07, 1915, Page 5, middle of column 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1915-09-07/ed-... "There was a parade in which the Forty-seventh Regiment, the Willets Point Military Band. Boy Scouts, suffragettes. volunteer firemen, members of the G. A. R. and Spanish War Veterans took part."

Opera singer Antonio Scotti en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Scotti

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and other earlier Bain photos of Scotti at www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=8623220%40N02&view_all... and