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In "A Fiddler Who Never Knew Stage-fright," which Erna wrote in 1922 books.google.com/books?id=AWBJAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA19&am... she said that her mother was her constant traveling companion. So, it seems likely that one of the women is her mother.

One possible time and place for this photo is given in the New York Herald. May 20, 1922, Page 6, column 5, top chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1922-05-20/ed-... which reports that Erna Rubinstein was among the passengers on the Holland America liner Ryndam, sailing for Europe that day. The uniform, including the cap with badge, is similar to that in the photo at www.captainalbert.com/captains-from-the-past/liewen-jan-k/ of Jan Klaas Lieuwen, when he was a Holland America Line captain.

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/49159072472/

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/49159072472/

This photograph of Erna Rubinstein reading the graphic section of a newspaper was published on page 19 of The Musician, July 1922, illustrating a piece credited to Erna Rubinstein with the title "A fiddler who never knew stagefright." The photo in The Musician is credited to Bain News Service. See books.google.com/books?id=AWBJAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA19&am... According to The New York Herald. January 29, 1922, SECTION THREE, Page 6, column 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1922-01-29/ed-... her first concert in the U.S. was at the Metropolitan Opera House on Friday February 3rd, 1922. Thus it seems likely that this Bain photoshoot was in 1922.

Thanks swanq for tracking down the publication she's reading as well as when her first US concert was. I think you've established these photos were taken in 1922 so we'll change the date in the catalog record.

I looked closer at the newspaper in the photo and recognized the image at the top of the page. It's a photo of the Knickerbocker Theater in DC after the roof collapsed on January 28, 1922. We have National Photo Co. negative taken from the same angle at www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/npcc.05700/. Some newspapers didn't run a full photo page until Sunday, but this confirms it was probably taken around the time of her first US concert.