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Louise Blanchard Bethune (July 21, 1856 – December 18, 1913) [1] was the first American woman known to have worked as a professional architect. She was born in Waterloo, New York . Blanchard worked primarily in Buffalo, New York and partnered with her husband at Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs .
The portrait of Nellie Bly as a young woman is cast in silver bronze. The other faces, cast in bronze and portrayed in broken sections, include an Asian-American woman, an African-American woman, a young girl, and an older LGBTQ woman. These women are not specific people from Bly's life, but are inspired by women in the artist's life. [10]
Charlotta Bass, from her high school class photo, Providence, Rhode Island, 1890s. Charlotta Amanda Spears was born on February 14, 1874, to Hiram and Kate Spears. [3] Some sources give her birthplace as in Sumter, South Carolina, [4] [5] while other sources suggest she was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island.
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
Louise Arner Boyd (September 16, 1887 – September 14, 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions.She became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955, after privately chartering a DC-4 and crew that included aviation pioneers Thor Solberg and Paul Mlinar.
This is a list of women artists who were born in America or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. Included are recognized American women artists, known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...
With nearly 12 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., American women have built 10-figure net worths that represent not an inheritance but the fruits of their labor. They include one billion ...
Touring Parris Island brought back many great memories for Valle, 40, who had wanted to be a Marine ever since was in middle school. The Fourth Battalion, she said, is where she became an adult ...