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Typo in LOC title: s/b Parnell Evelyn Parnell (1888-1939) was an American soprano who had had her debut at the Boston Opera. She was known in Boston, her home city, as a church singer, and was a pupil of Madame Meysenheim of New York. After the Boston season she went abroad and performed in opera in Milan, Pavia, and Venice. She later toured Australia, Ireland and performed extensively in the US and Canada. [1] [2] Photo by Theodore C. Marceau (studios), Boston  

Thanks for catching the typo. We'll fix it when we update.

I added her to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Parnell

>> Mrs. Julian Linugent This likely is Mrs. Julian L. Nugent

On Feb 4, 1915, Mrs Julian L Nugent of St. Louis laid the cornerstone for a YMCA building in Brooklyn, funded by her grandmother Mrs. W. van Rensselaer Smith. See Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., February 04, 1915, page 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95060876/1915-02-04/ed-...

Really great captured !

The sun., January 24, 1915, Page 8 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1915-01-24/ed-... indicates that she is a daughter of Clarence E. Smith to whom the building was to be dedicated.

Thank you for helping me find a picture of my grandmother. She died of cancer at the age of 49, 2 months before I was born. I have very few pictures of her and none of her father Clarence E Smith or his father and mother Roxie Maria and William Van Rensselaer Smith. I believe Clarence died in 1910 at the age of 44.

The former Lillian W. Hearne--she married Walter Pulitzer in 1909; they divorced in 1918.

Beautiful portrait.

Other Marceau portraits in the Bain Collection:
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/marceau/

pennylrichardsca: Thanks for the additional info. on Pulitzer. We'll include her full name next time we update.