suffragepageant

March 3, 1913.

This looks like it's another photo of German actress Hedwig Reicher dressed as Columbia, doubly misidentified by Bain as Frances F. Noyes dressed as Liberty. Edit: LOC has a photo from this event which is captioned "Liberty and Her Attendants" (link to the large .jpg version, as I'm unable to make a functional link to the photo's info page.) The woman in the dark toga must be Florence F. Noyes, though she is not identified by name on the info page. For comparison, this web page features a photo of Hedwig Reicher portraying Salome in a 1908 German production of the Oscar Wilde play.

Thanks for the information. You are correct about the misidentification of the subject. Take a look at this similar image from Bain News Service: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00032 . It also identifies the subject as Hedwig Reicher posing as Columbia during a suffrage pageant at the March 3, 1913 suffrage march in Washington, D.C. According to the information with this image, Florence F. Noyes may be one of the background figures in veils. We will update the source data and reload the description.

This image has been included in the Indicommons.org post Women across the Commons, prior to International Women's Day.

Made a backpack from this one:

But, as we all know, that isn't Frances Noyes.

And we know that Hedwig isn't dressed as Liberty, but as Columbia. Poor Hedwig Reicher, to lose her identity on the Internets! And she got such a splendid writeup in the New York Times in 1909! And on top of that she remains in the shadow her brother, Frank Reicher, whose IMDb page is so much longer than hers.

NYT article on February 7, 1913 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9907EED81E3AE633A25754C0A9649C946296D6CF ] says that Florence Fleming Noyes will wear sandals as Liberty -- however cold the weather. The article reassures the public that most will wear wool and therefore not be cold! Perhaps Florence Noyes is behind and to left of Hedwig Reicher. The article also suggests that the building is the U.S. Treasury.

LOC's history of the Woman Suffrage Procession (and Pageant) confirms that that is the Treasury building: www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9803/suffrage.html

Here she is guarding a train case I just restyled:

Glenna Smith Tinnin is mentioned in passing in the NY Times as being active in the women's suffrage movement. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E2DC143AE6...

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

Mrs. Tinnin is mentioned on page 105 of "The History of Woman Suffrage" (free here at Google Books.) She is cited as the first chairman of the Equal Franchise League, founded in 1914 as The Woman Suffrage Council. There are aslo a few Internet references to her as co-author of a religious play called "One Night in Bethlehem" published in 1925. More interesting to fans of the Bain Collection, Glenna Tinnin was, according to an article in a short-lived magazine called "National Waterways" (free here from Google Books,) the "...originator and designer of the Pageant-Procession...." which took place in Washington D.C. the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration in 1913 (article begins on page 210.) The Suffrage Pageant is the subject of several Bain photos, as is the parade. The article mentions several other women involved in the Pageant who are also subjects of various Bain photos, including our old friends Inez Milholland, Florence Noyes, Hedwig Reicher, and Mrs. Owens and Mrs. Moore. Small photos of various Pageant participants in costume accompany the article. I suspect that many of those photos are lurking in the Bain Collection, and might appear here in the LOC photostream someday.

great shot

I started a Wikipedia entry for her, and all are welcome to add information there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenna_Smith_Tinnin Just ask, if you need to know how to edit Wikipedia.