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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-...

A piece in the Warren (MN) sheaf., June 23, 1915, Image 6 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059228/1915-06-23/ed-... has this picture or one very like it.

Cynthia Burke Roche (10 April 1884 – 8 December 1966) was a Newport, Rhode Island socialite and an art collector. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Roche

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This appears to be from March 14-21, 1918 International Flower Show at Grand Central Palace in Manhattan. Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden was Chairman of the Decorating Committee for the Red Cross Garden Theatre at that show.
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B07E5D71538EE...