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Most likely Mrs. Harry Hendrick Duryea.

Nina Larrey Smith Duryea (1869-1951) IMO oztypewriter.blogspot.ch/2014/01/machines-ecrire-et-de-se... id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93061393.html (states 1874 as year of birth) (according to other sources: Nina Larre Duryea, s. e.g. www.geni.com/people/Nina-Duryea/6000000036556566971) The North Platte semi-weekly tribune., January 24, 1918, Image 2 (and other newspapers) printed a photo of her with the caption: "Mrs. Nina Larre Duryea, head of the Duryea War Relief in France and a noted author and beauty, has returned from Paris to endeavor to raise money for a perpetual fund which will continue tho work of relief in some form after the war. ..." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2010270504/1918-01-24/ed-... S. also photo in the Evening public ledger., January 22, 1919, Night Extra Closing Stock Prices, Image 22 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1919-01-22/ed-...

On the other hand, there was a Mrs. Harry H. Duryea (the inscription on the negative is H. H. Duryea IMO), chairman of the entertainment committee of the Red Cross, s. New-York tribune., March 01, 1918, Page 9, col. 3, "Flower Show Plans Aid for Red Cross" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-03-01/ed-... Hiram "Harry" Hendrick Duryea was a brother of Chester Burnell Duryea, the husband of Nina Larrey Smith Duryea www.geni.com/people/Hiram-Duryea/6000000036555181588 I suppose the two women were mixed up by the Bain News Service.

B-59 Interestingly, these Duryeas were heirs to General Hiram Duryea's National Cornstarch Company, which registered the still-existing brand name "Maizena". This General Duryea led the New York 5th Infantry Regiment, "Duryea's Zouaves", in the Civil War and later became president of the family company, making millions. He was shot in 1914 by his son, Chester Burnell Duryea, who went insane: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0DE3DD173AE633A... Chester was the husband of the lady in the picture, as you say, but they had been divorced in 1902 on charges of cruelty: news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19400110&i... Later on, Hiram "Harry" Hendrick Duryea, Chester's brother commited suicide in 1921: archives.chicagotribune.com/1921/07/28/page/6/article/son...

In another variation, "Mrs. Harry H. Duryea" is identified as chairman of the Entertainment Committee for the March, 1918 Red Cross "Garden Theatre" at the International Flower Show, Grand Central Palace, New York. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-03-01/ed-...

www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2909004787/ and www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2850356157/ are at the same event. Mrs Macy is Anne Sullivan Macy

I wonder if this might be the International Flower Show in New York City. The inaugural show was held in April 1913 and Helen Keller was reported to have visited there, as she was doing a speaking tour (her first in NY) at the time. (source, NY Times March 31, 1913, Monday ... "Helen Keller...appeared on the lecture platform for the first time in New York last night at the Forty-eighth Street Theatre.")

Further digging, and yes, this was in April 1913, per this story/photo in The Indianapolis Star, 14 April 1913, page 10, col 2 Famous Blind Girl Honored at Flower Show. Mrs John Macy, Miss Helen Keller -Copyright, International. "Miss Helen Keller, the famous deaf, dumb and blind woman, was one of the prominent visitors at the international flower show held in New York. She was presented with the prize American Beauty roses. She is shown with Mrs. John Macy of the presentation committee."

Swang - Is "Mrs. John Macy of the presentation committee" the same Mrs. John A. Macy who was previously known as Anne Sullivan?

I'm sure it is... and I'm not 100% convinced that the Indianapolis Star was correct in their caption of "Mrs John Macy of the presentation committee". It is indeed Mrs John (Ann Sullivan) Macy, but was she really on the presentation committee?

Sybil Appleton (1899-1973) worked with the American Committee for Devastated France (ACDF) in 1921: www.afs.org/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&am... She married Oliver Wolcott (1891-1967) in 1922, and they had three children (Helen, Augusta, and Oliver). Here's Sybil and Oliver's tombstone, elsewhere on Flickr:

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