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Kate Graham Cook

James Cook and Kate Graham first discovered the fossil deposits later to become known as Agate Fossil Beds.

Betty Reid Soskin

Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.

Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.

Marian Anderson

Civil rights icon and African American contralto, who had a ground-breaking career in classical music from the mid-1920s through the late 1950s.

Maria Levinia Guadagni

1700s Italian singer

Alice White

1800s English composer

Anne Thicknesse

Musician and writer

Caterina Galli

Italian opera singer and composer

Célestine Galli-Marié

1800s French singer

Mary Taylor

Although her ideas were considered less radical as the nineteenth century drew to a close, in her emphasis on the value of work for women and on the right of women to lead their own lives, Mary Taylor was more uncompromising than most feminists of her time.