Margaret Huggins
Irish pioneer astrophysicist
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Berenice Abbott
American photographer renowned for her black-and-white photography of New York City’s architecture and urban design.
Marilyn Stafford
American photojournalist
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.
Arwa Abouon
Libyan-Canadian photographer
Eileen Deste
New Zealand photographer
Una Garlick
New Zealand photographer
Harriet Chalmers Adams
American explorer, war correspondent and lecturer
Gene Stratton-Porter
American author and ornithologist
Ellen Elizabeth Ferner
As a member of the Auckland Community Welfare Council when it formed in mid 1924, Ferner was involved in providing important support for the passage of the Child Welfare Act in 1925. This experience, and her wider work on children’s issues, culminated in her appointment as one of the first three associate members of the Children’s Court in 1926.