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Assuming Mrs. B. is the older lady on the left, she is Helen Van Cortlandt Morris Burr. A cameo of her is in the NY Historical Society collection: "Helen Van Cortlandt Morris (ca. 1885-1958) The subject was a sister of Monson Morris. As children she and her brother were members of the household of Alonzo C. Monson, a former judge of the California Supreme Court and treasurer of the New York Jockey Club. In 1904 Miss Morris married Nelson Beardsley Burr, a New York lawyer and railroad executive." www.nyhistory.org/node/45105 From "Men of 1914" genealogybiography.com/1914/biographies016.htm "Burr, Nelson B., 165 Broadway, New York City; residence, 1 East 51st St., N. Y. City; born in Auburn, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1871. Educated at Phillips Andover Academy, Yale University and Harvard Law School. Lieut.-Col. 12th Rgt. Inf. N.Y.N.G.; vice-pres. St. Louis & So. Western Rwy. Co.; director Am. Writing Paper Co., etc. Married 1904 to Helen Van Cortlandt Morris, of New York City. Member Union, University, Lawyers', St. Anthony, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Yale, Racquet and Tennis, Foreign Wars and Spanish Am. War Vets." This was their Long Island estate: wikimapia.org/5878866/The-Anchorage-Lily-Hill

At the polo match at Meadow Brook Field of June 14, 1913. America defeated England for the Newport Cup that day.

lifeasdaddy: Thanks again for the additional information. We'll add this to the record next time we update.

I started an entry for him in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finley_Johnson_Shepard I started her biography in 2005: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Miller_Gould en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowbrook_Polo_Club I started an entry on the history of the cup: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Cup_(polo)