Alice Hands
Co-founder of the US’s first female architectural partnership in 1894.
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Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan is arguably the best-known female architect in the United States. Although millions of visitors have admired Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, Morgan’s architectural legacy is found throughout the state, where she designed more than seven hundred buildings during her long and prolific career.
Mary Gannon
Co-founder of the U.S.’s first female architectural partnership in 1894.
June Mathis
As one of the first screenwriters to include details such as stage directions and physical settings in her work, Mathis saw scenarios as a way to make movies into more of an art form. In 1920, she headed Metro’s scenario department, the first female executive at that studio.
Margaret Pirrie
Viscountess Pirrie , public figure and philanthropist
Romana Acosta Bañuelos
In 1970 President Richard Nixon picked Romana Acosta Bañuelos to the post of U.S. Treasurer, the first Latina in the position in U.S. history.
Esther Arscott
1800s Canadian brothel-keeper
Marguerite-Madgelaine La Framboise
1800s Canadian fur trader
Sarah Herbert
1800s Irish-Canadian author, publisher, and educator
Sara Davy Armbruster
1800s and 1900s American businesswoman and publisher