Sarah Bagley
While much of her life remains surrounded by questions, the record of Bagley’s experiences as a worker and activist in Lowell, Massachusetts reveals a remarkable spirit.
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Dr Loy McAfee
Dr. Loy McAfee served as a contract surgeon with the surgeon general’s office of the U.S. Army during World War I.
Dr Maude Abbott
In 1936, Dr. Maude Abbott invented an international classification system for congenital heart disease, which became the definitive reference guide to the subject.
Emily Tapscott Clark
Emily Tapscott Clark was a writer and the founding editor of The Reviewer, a literary magazine that helped spark the Southern Literary Renaissance—a movement in southern letters that turned away from glorifying the Old South in sentimental narratives and instead moved toward writing about themes of race, gender, identity, and the burden of history in the South.
Helen Spence Federer
Helen Spence Federer (1911-1983) was an astronomer who worked at the Harvard College Observatory in various capacities from approximately 1941-1962.
Fanny Goldstein
As the first Jewish woman to become a branch librarian in Massachusetts, Fanny Goldstein (1895-1961) was also collector and bibliographer of Judaica for the Boston Public Library.
Isabel Hardwich
Photometry expert and electrical engineer and WES activist.
Hermila Galindo
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Geraldine Pindell Trotter
Associate editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights.
Dorothy Cridland
In 1951 she was one of the earliest women to be elected as an Associate of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and went to work for them from 1955-63 as a technical editor, despite her lack of formal technical qualifications.