Business Archives - Page 49 of 58

Pearl Ing

Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai, the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking.

On the 9 September 1875, in rough open water Harriet Elphinstone-Dick swam seven miles from Shoreham Harbour to Brighton’s West Pier. She completed the distance in a record making 2 hours and 45 minutes. It was regarded as one of the greatest swimming feats of the time.

Baranamtarra

Baranamtarra was an ancient Mesopotamia businesswoman.

Barbara Uthmann

Foundress of the lace industry in her community.

Maria Christina Bruhn

Maria Christina Bruhn was Sweden’s first female inventor in the field of military technology.

Airini Elizabeth Woodhouse

Airini Woodhouse was undoubtedly South Canterbury’s outstanding countrywoman in this century, combining an active farm life and service on numerous voluntary organisations with her chosen vocation as a local historian

Eslanda Robeson

A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.

Hannah Weinberger

The first woman winemaker from the United States to be given an award on the world stage, who produced the first California wine to ever be awarded an international medal.

Josephine Tychson

After losing her husband to suicide during his battle with tuberculosis, Josephine undertook an extensive rebuilding of his winery and oversaw the very first harvest. She kept the business alive until 1895 when she decided to sell it to the then burgeoning giant Italian Swiss Colony. The winery, located near St. Helena, still stands today as part of Freemark Abbey Wines.

Eliza Shaw Hood

Eliza Shaw Hood, Ellen Stuart, and Kate Warfield all hailed from Glen Ellen. All three lived and worked near one another, and all three took over the wineries owned by their respective husbands in the late 1870s and early 1880s.