Artifacts
Nicknamed “Madame Tinkerbell” by a colleague early in her political career due to her ebullient and engaging personality, Gladys Noon Spellman of Maryland appears characteristically cheerful in a Supersisters card - a group of woman Members supporting their party’s Congressional Baseball team. A great advocate of federal workers and a reformer of House procedures, Spellman became one of the most popular figures in Maryland politics.
Gladys Noon Spellman “Supersisters” Card, 1979, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives