sopranos

Daughter of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Homer She looks like a clone of her mother, just 20 years younger.

Louise Homer, Jr. (aka Louise Homer [Mrs. Ernest] Stires) 1896-1970, was the Homers' oldest child. She sang professionally as a soprano, and toured with her mother in 1922, including a concert at Carnegie Hall. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02EED9133CE5... LOC has some recordings online of the two from that year. www.loc.gov/jukebox/artists/detail/id/2608/ a discography; adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/43459/Stires... Her obituary: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E1DE1E3EE034B...

seen also in this 1915 family photo at lower left:

Thanks all. When we update the record we will add some biographical details.

Mabel Garrison Siemonn (April 24, 1886 - August 20, 1963), was an American coloratura soprano who sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1914 to 1921. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Garrison It looks like demonstration of a WWI victory garden

Richard Norton: Thank you for the information about opera singer Mabel Garrison. We will add more to the image description when we update.

Given the nearby pictures of Mabel Garrison on the Recruit, this must be the model gardens in Union Square established to encourage growing food in wartime, just adjacent to the Recruit: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1917-06-22/ed-...

Homer Family This is a series of portraits of the family of composer Sidney Homer (1864-1953) and his wife contralto Louise Dilworth Homer née Beatty (1871-1947). Sidney Homer composed many of his songs with the voice of his famous wife in mind. Among his most famous songs are "A Banjo Song" (Weeden), "Requiem" (Stevenson), "Casey at the Bat" (Thayer), and "The House that Jack Built" ("Mother Goose.") Sidney was Louise's music theory teacher in Boston, MA. Louise Homer's European debut in 1898 was in Vichy, as Leonora in La Favorita, and in 1900 she made her American opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City singing Amneris in Verdi's Aida. She sang at the Met for 19 consecutive seasons, often singing opposite such acclaimed singers as Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Composer Samuel Barber was her nephew, and Louise performed several of his songs. In 1923 and 1924 she was listed as one of the 12 greatest living women by the National League of Women Voters. They had six children, the oldest Louise Homer, Jr. (1896-1970) (Louise Homer Stires), appears in this portrait with her mother. There are currently 34 photographs of the Homer family in the Bain Collection on Flickr. You can view them all here. They were first identified by Art Siegel, B-59, pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity), Wystan, swanq, and Richard Norton.