Ella Ryan
One of the earliest African American business owners in Tacoma, Washington; owner and editor of The Forum, a weekly newspaper.
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Zoë Dusanne
Seattle’s first professional modern-art dealer, who introduced modern art to many residents of the Puget Sound region, and helped to catalyze the rise and international fame of the Northwest School of artists.
Mary Ann Conklin
Mary Ann Conklin ran Seattle’s first hotel, the Felker House
L Jane Hastings
Architects around the world, and particularly women architects in Seattle and Washington, have long looked to L. Jane Hastings as an exemplar and professional leader, and often the first to achieve key professional aspirations.
Ann Trow Lohman
1800s British-American abortion provider
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt purchased a small Seattle radio station with almost no listeners in 1947. She expanded it into one of the finest broadcasting empires in the nation.
Emme Gerhard
When the Gerhard sisters opened their own photographic studio in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, newspapers and magazines rarely hired women as staff photographers to capture late breaking news. But photographs by Emme and Mayme Gerhard appeared frequently in local and national media.
Mayme Gerhard
When the Gerhard sisters opened their own photographic studio in St. Louis, Missouri in 1903, newspapers and magazines rarely hired women as staff photographers to capture late breaking news. But photographs by Emme and Mayme Gerhard appeared frequently in local and national media.
Frances Blascoer
A settlement worker and the NAACP’s first secretary from February 1910 to March 1911
Alice Rigby
Clara (1873-1953) and Alice Rigby (1871-1915) owned and operated an Everett photographic studio from 1905 to 1915, successfully competing with a dozen other local firms.