butt

Now that's something you don't see too often - like a bull in a china shop.

Better class of clientele they serve at that tea room.

very modern shop for 1939.

:)

wow. this is fantastic

Clara Butt (1872-1936) was an English contralto; both the boys here died before Clara did, the elder son Roy from meningitis at school, the younger, Victor, by suicide. Butt would use a wheelchair in her later years, when spinal cancer was taking hold. The daughter here was named Joy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Butt

This is video of this same moment!
www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=61490

Here's baby Joy Rumford with her parents, looks like about ten years earlier:

The boy on the left inherited mom's teeth.
Sounds like a sad family.

She sang at the Met in the season-ending concert on April 26, 1914, according to NYT of April 27, 1914
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9501E2DF173AE633A...

Perhaps the picture was taken when she was leaving for England.

I assumed it was arrival because of the bouquets! But I looked again at the video, and it says they're getting ON the ship, as you suggest, swanq. Thanks!

pennsylrichardsca: Thank you for identifying English opera singer Clara Butt and including the additional photo of her and the film from Pathe. However, I am not sure if the film was taken at the same time as the photo. Their clothes look similar, but the locations may be different and perhaps these are their traveling outfits. Could the Bain photo been taken in NYC and the Pathe film in England? The Pathe film archive is fascinating, and may be helpful for identifying other Bain images. Thanks for including it in your post.

This shot just shows how common place photographs taken without artistic vision later becomes valuable historic record.

Wonderful. Amazing fleece those sheep have.

Thanks love the shot

I was thinking epididimitis , but that doesn't explain both cases , hmmmm.

Look at their bums! :D They look like kids in diapers!