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Centennial Hall (Brisbane) Centennial Hall opened in 1888 and was located in Adelaide Street, between Albert and Edward Streets (where the present day Reserve Bank of Australia building is located). Its entrance faced the Brisbane Arcade. Its remodel with a design by Lange Leopold Powell in the 1920s[12] emphasised Art Deco decoration and the building included marble stairs and a flat auditorium floor which could seat 700 people when not in use as a dance hall. It had a gallery area which could also seat 300 people if a floor show was playing that evening.[13] Shops operated in the lower level of the building. It operated as a skating rink in the 1880s and music hall venue in the 1890s. It was operated as a bioscopy theatre from 1906-1919 and a vaudeville venue from 1940-1941. It became known as the Cocoanut Grove Ballroom after 1941,[1] and was popular with US soldiers. Fire damaged the building in April 1942. Cocoanut Grove later became known as Birdland.[4] Programs from productions at the Centennial are held in the Fryer Library of the University of Queensland.[14]" Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Halls_of_Brisbane_in_the_twen...

A couple of the children did not realize one is not supposed to smile in a photograph.....photographs were serious events back then!

Likely a gathering of New York socialites in the "Belgian Relief Shop": Here's another image of Margaret Andrews (rightmost in main image above) from the Bain collection:

Muriel Egerton Winthrop (1894-, daughter of Egerton L. Winthrop, was a champion amateur equestrian in Newport RI, 1912; she married Richard De Blois Boardman in 1921, and married a second time, to Harold Aymar Sands, in 1925.

@blor: you are right. Here's another photo of the same group that was published in the New York Times memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpnyt/1914/191412/19141206/00... on Dec 6, 1914. The caption is "Society girls who are daily foragers for "Little Belguim[sic]" the Fifth Avenue shop.

bior and swanq: Thanks for linking this photo to the Belgian Relief Shop. We'll include this link next time we update. pennylrichards: Thanks for providing additional information about Muriel Winthrop.

swanq The group is almost, but not exactly the same in the Times. "Miss Morgan" is identified as Camilla Morgan.