Eliza Scidmore
Eliza Scidmore traveled through Alaska’s Inside Passage in 1883. Her articles and travel logs shared the grandeur and adventure of Alaska with western tourists, ushering in a new era of travel and tourism to the Alaska territory.
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Ann Axtell Morris
American archaeologist Ann Axtell knew she wanted to study ancient cultures from the time she was six years old.
Lorena Hickok
Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt’s devoted friend, mentor, and pioneering journalist, wrote Reluctant First Lady, a biography of Eleanor, and six children’s biographies.
Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.
Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin
American suffragist and writer
Tilly Aston
Tilly Aston, ‘Australia’s Own Helen Keller’ was a blind writer and teacher who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers and later went on to establish and become secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind.
Marianne Roland Michel
Scholar and catalogues raisonnés compiler; dealer of eighteenth-century French art; director of the Galerie Cailleux from 1982-1996
Aleida Betsy Loosjes-Terpstra
Modernist art historian
Ada Louise Huxtable
Architectural historian and first permanent architecture critic for the New York Times.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)