Catherine Wolfe Bruce
Astronomy philanthropist
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Sarah Elizabeth Pratt Whitin
Philanthropist who funded the building of the Observatory at Wellesley College
Mary Anna Draper
Astronomer and philanthropist who funded the work of the Harvard Observatory
Mildred Albert
Founded Boston’s first finishing school, co-founded the Boston Arts Festival, and became the “First Lady of Fashion”.
Pauline Durant
Co-founder of Wellesley College
Kate Gleason
The USA’s first woman engineer, “Concrete Kate” Gleason, mechanical engineer and house builder.
Harriet Hemenway
Harriet Lawrence Hemenway (1858-1960) in 1896 founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society with her cousin, Minna Hall (1851-1941).
Pauline Agassiz Shaw
In 1881, when Pauline Agassiz Shaw founded the North Bennet Street School to train primarily European Jewish and Italian immigrants in skilled trades, Boston’s North End was home to thousands of recent immigrants who crowded into the neighborhood’s tenement houses in search of a better life.
Mary Tileston Hemenway
1800s Boston philanthropist
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Generous patron of up-and-coming artists and musicians—a tradition carried on by the Gardner Museum today