This is Helena Smith Dayton

Helena Smith Dayton (often hyphened as Helena Smith-Dayton) (1883–1960) was an American film maker, painter and sculptor operating in New York City who used fledgling End motion and clay casualness techniques in the 1910s and 1920s, one of the dated animators (and the first American woman) to experiment in the same way as clay animation. Her “clay cartoons” were droll in nature, and Dayton was featured in the “Humorist Salons” in New York City. She spent the terminate of World War I in Paris managing an YMCA canteen for soldiers. She was a published author, ranging in genre from journalism to plays to a guide to New York City.