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Glenna Smith Tinnin (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 2 older comments, and then…
• Coordinated Manner said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sitting portraits, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Mark said:

  "An idea that is driven home to the mind through the eye produces a more striking and lasting impression than any that goes through the ear" - Glenna Smith Tinnin Glenna Smith Tinnin (1877-?) was the first chairman of the Equal Franchise League. The Equal Franchise League was founded in 1914 as The Woman Suffrage Council. She was chairman of the pageant committee of the American Federation of Arts. She was born in Illinois and by 1910 she was married to Davis S. Tinnin (1878-?) of North Carolina, and they were living in Washington, DC. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenna_Smith_Tinnin

• Richard Norton said:

  Ha! I created that entry for her last photo. I still have to find a death date for her.

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  NY Times obituary listings for 25 March 1945: "Word was received here last night of the death yesterday of Mrs. Glenna Smith Tinnin at a sanitarium in Chestnut Hill, Mass. She formerly lived at the Hotel Wellington, this city, and in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Tinnin was an organizer of the National Junior Theatre which gave performances at the Alvin Theatre here in 1931, and earlier, in Philadelphia, Boston, and Brooklyn. She directed the woman suffrage pageant in Washington in 1913."

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Purse made from this image: