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This photo depicts Sacramento patent lawyer Silvey-Pearl Tinsler on her twenty-seventh birthday. Tinsler was born in Iowa and educated at least in part in Yavapai County, Arizona before moving to California, where she lived in a number of cities from San Francisco to Chico. At the age of twenty-one, she was recorded as a practicing attorney in Sacramento and at the time of the photograph she was known as the only female lawyer in the city. She was a founding member of Sacramento’s Soroptimist Club, an organization dedicated to helping improve the lives of women and girls through education and training for economic independence and corresponding secretary of the New York chapter after moving to the East Coast in about 1926. In addition to this role, she was the president of the New York branch of the National League of American Pen Women, an organization founded with the goal of seeking equality for female writers across a wide range of disciplines and which counted Eleanor Roosevelt among its members. Tinsler died in Staten Island, New York in 1977.
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