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"Pietro Cimara (1887 in Rome – 1967 in Milan) was an Italian composer, conductor and pianist. He was a student of Respighi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. His output included many songs. He was published by Francesco Bongiovanni of Bologna. From 1950-1957 he was conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, where he had a stroke in 1957 while conducting La Forza del Destino, after which he retired to Italy." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Cimara This may have been taken in New York, where he appeared accompanying Luisa Tetrazzini (on piano) at the Hippodrome on Nov. 30, 1919, and a subsequent national tour. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A03E7D7153BEE... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/1920-01-07/ed-... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042345/1920-01-26/ed-... gallery.multcolib.org/document/luisa-tetrazzini-soprano-p...

As to whether he was a Count, and she a Countess, this from a 2003 biography: "The Cimara family was somehow connected to aristocracy but the relationship is unclear. Nevertheless, Luigi is said to have been of aristocratic stature, and in Charles Neilson Gattey’s Luisa Tetrazzini the Florentine Nightingale, Pietro is referred to as “Count Cimara.” "As little has been written about Cimara’s personality, even less has been documented about his wife. Cimara was married to M. Clara Cassini,47 who, when mentioned in various newspaper articles and stories, is referred to merely as Cimara’s wife, Clara. The only other information provided about her comes from a 1919 Ellis Island Passenger Record which documents that she was Italian, married, 25 years old--thus making her year of birth either 1893 or 1894, and that her place of residence was London, England." According to this source, the Cimaras arrived in New York aboard the Mauretania on November 25, 1919. (p. 18) repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/12922/r...

Thanks for the identification information and likely occasion for the photo. The Mauretania appears to have been carrying a number of notables that November. We'll add information at our end.

Saloon cars Each tram in this class was constructed by joining two single deck saloon horse trams together on a single motorized chassis. Their long, enclosed bodies gave rise to their nickname of "coffin cars". They were built in 1897 when delivery of new electric trams was delayed. 6 cars in this class. They were all withdrawn from service by 1930. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Brisbane

Horse trams began servicing Brisbane in 1885 running from the city to Woolloongabba, yet electric trams in Ipswich Rd made Mr. Soden’s horse-drawn buses out-of-date by the turn of the century. Electric trams began in Brisbane in 1897 and reached Cornwall street that year. The extension from Cornwall to Dudley Street (then Mary Street) along Ipswich Road in 1899 changed the predominantly rural landscape into residential living. The line was extended to Chardon’s Corner in 1914. Source: www.everywherehistory.com/history-annerley-part-2/

Toscanini, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 to 1915, seen in April, 1915.
He was leaving New York on April 24th, missing the final performances of the season, for rest in Italy.
This is probably a candid shot of Toscanini leaving on the Royal Italian Mail steamship Duca degli Abruzzi for Genoa, with his wife Carla De Martini Toscanini.
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artolog: Thanks for the further information on these photos of Toscanini. The candid nature does make it seem like he was unaware of the photographer, so perhaps a small or hidden camera. We will add more information to the record when we update.