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Hampton University, Alice Mabel Bacon, Educator, Duke University, Unknown

A black and white photograph of Alice Mabel Bacon, an American writer, educator, and foreign advisor to the Japanese government. When Alice Bacon’s…

Tags: Alice Mabel Bacon, Dixie Hospital, Japan, Japanese, Schools, Tokyo, Women

Zur Erinnerung an Anna Ottendorder, Anna Behr Uhl Ottendorfer, German Philanthropist, Zur Erinnerung an Anna Ottendorder, 1884

Anna Ottendorfer helped flourish the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, a newspaper for German-language citizens of the United States. It achieved mass…

Tags: Germany, Ottendorfer, Philanthropy, Women

SCOTUS, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - Sonia Sotomayor, First Latina Supreme Court Justice, SCOTUS, 2009

Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, serving since August 2009. She is the Court's…

Tags: Hispanic, Justice, Obama, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, United States, Women

WV Broadcasting, Colonel Ruby Bradley - US Army Nurse, WV Broadcasting, 1941

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Tags: Colonel Ruby Bradley, Korean War, Military Service, Nursing, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Women, World War II

Library of Congress, Congresswoman Cecil Murray Harden, Advocate of Women Post Office Workers, Library of Congress, 1949-1959

Cecil Harden had served as a congresswoman before Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield appointed her as Special Assistant for Women's Affairs.…

Tags: Cecil Murray Harden, Congresswoman, Postal Service, Women

UN Photographs Collection, Dominique De Menil, Artwork Collector, University of Houston, Between 1948-2000

Dominique de Menil and her husband collected many pieces of artwork throughout their lives, and managed to put this collection to use in helping…

Tags: Artwork, Civil Rights, Dominique de Menil, Human Rights, MLK, Philanthropy, Women

Library of Congress, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Activist, Library of Congress, None

Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802 – 1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state…

Tags: Activist, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mental Health, Nursing, Women

Frederick Waddy, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, First Female Doctor in France, Frederick Waddy, 1873

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (1836 – 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon…

Tags: Britain, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Feminist, Physician, Surgeon, Women

Milbank Memorial Fund, Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, Public Health Activist, Milbank Memorial Fund, Before 1921

While Elizabeth Anderson was living in New York, she noted the deplorable conditions around the state and sought to improve them with her and her…

Tags: Education, Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, Mental Health, PTSD, Public Schools, Women

Gulf News, Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi, UAE, 2016

Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi, or Sheikha Fatima, is the widow of the former Sheikh Zayed, the founder and first president of the United Arab Emirates.…

Tags: Arab World, Education, International, UAE, Women, Women's Rights