Carol Tyler
Comic artist Carol Tyler came of age during the underground comix movement in San Francisco
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Ai Ogawa
American poet
Anne Harriet Fish
Designing more than 30 cover designs for Vanity Fair, Fish also created elegant cartoon, caricature, and illustration drawings that were published in other magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan.
Anne Mergen
Few if any other women held a comparable position while she worked as the editorial cartoonist for the Miami Daily News from 1933–1956.
Annie Kriegel
During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.
Barbara Brandon-Croft
In her comic that revolves around single black female characters, Brandon-Croft presents spirited, sometimes heated discussions addressing issues of race, identity, and relationships—topics atypical of most strips in the 1990s. Her work debuted in the Detroit Free Press in 1989 and in 1991 she became the first nationally syndicated black female cartoonist.
Marjorie Drake Ross
Specialist on the decorative arts and author of The Book of Boston series, helped to acquire appropriate objects for the Gibson House and directed the cataloging of the collection.
Mary Sherkanowksi
Sisters Helen S. Rush (1900-1985) and Mary Sherkanowski (1902-1987) ran a boarding house at 22 Monument Square. They wrote about their adventures in the 1952 book “Rooms to Let”.
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Harlem Renaissance poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor
Mildred Albert
Founded Boston’s first finishing school, co-founded the Boston Arts Festival, and became the “First Lady of Fashion”.