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The former Agnes Huntington, an actress and opera singer. Her husband and daughter Vera are in this one: She can be seen in a much younger (and highly corseted) portrait here: www.life.com/image/50335442

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her husband, Paul Drennan Cravath, was a name partner of Cravath, Swain and Moore law firm in NYC: here is his bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cravath

This photo appears on page 34 of Their Gilded Cage By Richard Jay Hutto, June Hall McCash, Stillman Rockefeller. Published by Indigo Custom Publishing, 2005 ISBN 0977091228, 9780977091225. books.google.com/books?id=FNPoVchaehwC Beatrice Claflin was the daughter of Arthur Brigham Claflin, a "textile magnate" ( to quote another source, books.google.com/books?id=Gka2twCr8SEC She married Robert P. Breese (in 1915), and later (in 1928) the Earl of Gosford.

MM Van Beuren might be: "MICHAEL MURRAY VAN BEUREN was born March 31st, 1873, in New York City. He is a son of Frederick Theodore van Beuren and Elizabeth Potter, who were married Aug. 26th, 1869, at San Francisco, Cal., and had altogether five children, two boys and three girls. Frederick Theodore van Beuren, Jr., '98, is a brother. ... He was married Sept. 25th, 1895, at Tarrytown, N. Y., to Miss Mary L. Archbold, daughter of John D. Archbold of New York City, and has one child, a son, Archbold van Beuren (b. Dec. 21st, 1905, in New York City)." From page 701 of Decennial Record, class of 1896, Yale College. books.google.com/books?id=s4IDAAAAYAAJ

At polo match - can see field in background & one mounted player

Michael Murray Van Beuren www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42546794

Yes, they are polo players.

what else could they be? The question is, where is this? The presence of the portable flag leads me to suspect they could be on an army base during WWI: "....Joining the USPA in 1902, the Army encouraged their cavalry units to participate in polo to improve their riding ability. From then until World War II, the U.S. Military would play a significant role in the sport of polo." this quote is from www.sportpolo.com/History/default.htm

Checking Newell Bent's American Polo (published by Macmillan in 1929) reveals that there was a series of international matches between American and British teams around this time. There was no such match in 1910, but there were matches in 1909 and 1911 (among other years). Comparing this photo to photos in the book shows similar uniforms (dark shirt, pith-type helmet with dark band around it) for the British teams; for example there's a photo of the 1914 British team on page 189. So I tentatively suggest that this might be a photo of one of the British international polo teams of that era.

BTW, when they say this is 1910s, it means it could be anytime within the decade of 1910-1919, Ammo. I should have known the guy on the left was a Brit officer. He has a mustache.

Thanks, budderflyman. I based 1910 on the date given in the stats under the copyright notice. It turns out that there was international polo played in 1910 after all; there are lots of articles in the New York Times covering it. Matches (though not a match for the championship; that match was scheduled but then cancelled due to injury to one of the British riders) were played at Georgian Court in Lakewood, NJ, and at the Meadow Brook Hunt Club on Long Island, NY. Meadow Brook was also a venue for matches later on in the decade.