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PCAnother idea ...
May 17, 1912 was the date of the dedication ceremony for Fenway Park. Boston Mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, grandfather of President John F. Kennedy, threw out the first pitch.
And according to the on-line Baseball Almanac, the the Red Sox played the White Sox that day: "One of baseball's original cathedrals, Boston's Fenway Park, (built at a cost of $350,000) was formally dedicated as the visiting White Sox beat the Red pair 5-2 before a capacity crowd."
So, the Fenway dedication would be an on-field ceremony that fits the time frame and the Boston location, and would explain the White Sox in the photo, the sweaters (mid-May in Boston) and the various "dignitaries" milling about.
Honey Fitz could be the man in the middle of the picture. He would have been about 49 at the time, and the guy in the middle looks about that age. Also, he looks an awful lot like the Mayor of Boston in the middle of this 1910 picture:
