Lilli Vincenz
German-American LGBTQIA+ rights activist
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Anne Whitney
American sculptor who received prestigious commissions for monuments across the country.
Dr Abigail Adams Eliot
American educator and a leading authority on early childhood education.
Alvina Krause
American drama teacher and theater director.
Harriet Colfax
American lighthouse keeper
Vida Milholland
American suffragist and singer
Dr Martha May Eliot
Dr. Martha May Eliot was the first woman to be elected president of the American Public Health Association and the first woman to be awarded the American Public Health Association’s Sedgewick Memorial Medal.
Dr Ethel Collins Dunham
1957: Dr. Ethel Collins Dunham was the first woman pediatrician to receive the American Pediatric Society’s most prestigious award, the John Howland Medal.
Charley Parkhurst
Called the “best whip in California,” Charley Parkhurst was a legendary six-horse stagecoach driver during California’s Gold Rush.
Charlotte Brooks
Photojournalist who worked for Look magazine from 1951 until 1971.