Margaret Rose Preston
Margaret Preston was a leading painter, printmaker and designer.
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Anna Amelia Obermeyer
South African botanist Anna Amelia Obermeyer Mauve catalogued more than 4,000 plant specimens from the Kalahari and Soutpansberg regions. She made major contributions to botany journals Flowering Plants of Africa and Bothalia.
Ana Roqué de Duprey
Ana Roqué de Duprey, a prolific educator, writer, and scientist, founded the first woman’s suffrage organization in Puerto Rico in 1917. Known as “Flor del Valle” (“Flower of the Valley”) for her work in botany, she strove to promote educational opportunities and political rights for women in Puerto Rico.
Ada Armytage
Ada Armytage’s photographs document life within the stately Como House (which her father owned) and among the social elite of her time. Ada’s photographs and her sisters’ diaries, letters and journals make up the Armytage family archive, which preserves the significant moment in history.