fritzkreisler

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kreisler

NYT of Nov 29, 1914 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10712F63C5C1373... has a piece on Kreisler as an Austrian soldier. He was injured. NYT of Sept 5, 1915 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E13FA3C551273... has a picture of Kreisler and his wife in Bar Harbor, Maine. It describes him as "domiciled at Seal Harbor" for the summer.

Reinhold von Warlich (also found as Wahrlich), baritone. Warlich, Reinhold von, German baritone; b. St. Petersburg, May 24, 1877; d. N.Y, Nov. 10, 1939. His father was an opera conductor active in St. Petersburg; studied at the Hamburg Conservatory, in Florence, and in Cologne. According to NYT of Dec 21, 1916, he gave a recital the previous day with Kreisler accompanying him on the piano. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00E7DA103DE333A...

Thank you for the information swanq. We'll add some of the details to the record the next time we update.

There were at least 7 photographers present taking images, but we only know of the set taken by Bain because Bain was thoughtful enough to donate them to the Library of Congress and the LOC was thoughtful enough to scan them and release them from copyright.

I think the caption should probably be "Kreislers." Possibly when he sailed to Europe on the Rotterdam on June 10, 1920 with $20,000 worth of food draft orders on the Hoover relief food warehouses in Vienna, to distribute to the needy of Austro-Hungary. See Norwich bulletin., June 11, 1920, Page 1, column 6, near bottom chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014086/1920-06-11/ed-... NYT of Jun 11, 1920 www.nytimes.com/1920/06/11/archives/kreisler-sails-for-eu... indicated that he sailed with his wife.

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/15712858839/ and www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/8498278198/