Organized by the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Heritage Museum, Lexington, Massachusetts.

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Ford Motor Company and AT&T.

Additional support is provided by the Cabot Family Charitable Trust, with in-kind support from the U.S. Small Business Administration.


Exhibition Project Team

Historian: Virginia G. Drachman
Curator: Edith P. Mayo
Designer: Staples & Charles Ltd.
Multimedia producer: Picture Projects, Inc.
Exhibition fabricator: Proto Productions, Inc.


Website

Developed by Picture Projects, Inc.: Alison Cornyn, project director; Brenda McCarthy, project manager; Britta Frahm, designer; Liana Brazil, illustrator and animator; Jessica Ling Findley, video editor; John Keefe, audio editor; Ana DeBoo, copywriter and researcher; Veronique Brossier, Flash programmer; Ray Cha, HTML programmer; Vanessa Bertozzi, HTML programmer; Tsam Lim, HTML programmer; Musti Ekin, database programmer. Biographies of featured women written by Edith P. Mayo, curator and Ana DeBoo. Further resources text researched by Virginia G. Drachman, historian. Games written by Brenda McCarthy with thanks to Virginia G. Drachman, historian; Eric Rothschild, educational consultant; Kate Hartnick, business consultant; Monica Smiley, Enterprising Women magazine. Additional support provided by the Cynthia Green Colin Fund.


Teacher Guide

 Developed by: Eric Rothschild, educational consultant; Kathryn Rhuda, Cynthia Robinson and Alice Promisel, National Heritage Museum; Virginia G. Drachman, historian; Edith P. Mayo, curator; Jane Knowles, Schlesinger Library. Special thanks to Patricia Cleary.


In-kind Support

A&E Television Networks; Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution; The Julia Morgan Collection, Special Collections, California Polytechnic State University; Duggal Printing; Hearst Castle; Lane Bryant Company; Maryland State Archives; Massachusetts Historical Society; National Park Service, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University; Pewabic Pottery Archives; Random House Audio.


Website Photograph Credits

American Antiquarian Society
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Catherine Grey Hurley
Elizabeth Arden, Inc.
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
A'Lelia Bundles/Walker Family Collection
California Polytechnic State University, The Julia Morgan Collection, Special Collections
Jake Chessum, Harpo Productions, Inc.
Chicago Historical Society
Hagley Museum and Library, Records of Lukens Iron & Steel Company
Elliot Handler
hartmannphoto.com
Hearst Castle®/CA State Parks, photo by Victoria Garagliano
The Stewart Huston Charitable Trust
Idaho State Historical Society, neg. # 73-228.43/H7, 73-226.16
Indianapolis Museum of Art, on loan from the Collection of Rosalind Webster Perry
Bob Isear
Library of Congress
Maidenform, Inc.
Maryland Historical Society
Massachusetts Historical Society
Wally McNamee/Corbis
The Meyer and Graham families
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of James Van Der Zee Institute, 1970. (1970.539.10)
Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Gift of Joseph W. R. Rogers and Mary C. Rogers, 1942
Museum of the City of New York, The Byron Collection
Museum of New Mexico, neg. 42317
National Park Service, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
The New York Public Library, General Research Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Palo Alto Historical Society
Photo by Susan Peterson
Pewabic Pottery Archives
Princeton University Library, The Miriam Y. Holden Collection
Rhode Island Historical Society
Rochester Museum & Science Center
Helena Rubinstein Foundation
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center
TimePix, photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Tootsie Roll Industries
U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
Valentine Richmond History Center, Richmond, Virginia
Wichita State University Libraries, Department of Special Collections
Paul Zousmer and Random House


Lenders to the Exhibition

American Antiquarian Society; Arizona Inn; Library of the Arnold Arboretum; A’Lelia Bundles/Walker Family Collection; The Julia Morgan Collection, Special Collections, California Polytechnic State University; The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis;The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut; Dallas Historical Society; Detroit Historical Museums; Katherine Webster Dwight; Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; The Graystone Society; Hagley Museum and Library, Records of Lukens Iron & Steel Company; Elliot Handler; Baker Library, Harvard Business School; Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library; Harvard University Herbaria, Harvard University; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University; Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University; Widener Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University; Collection of Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Indiana Historical Society; Library Company of Philadelphia; Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Serials & Government Publications Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Madame Walker Theatre Center; Massachusetts Historical Society; Collection of the Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico; Monterey State Historic Park, Monterey, California; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Park Service, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site; National Park Service, Sleeping Bear Dunes Historic Park, Empire, Michigan; Rare Books Division, Emmet Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Private Collection of Edith A. Nichols, lent courtesy The Hetty Green Historical Society, Inc.; Family Collection of Mary Lynn Beech Oliver, Suzanne Beech Warner, Jennifer Pitt, and Jeffrey Pitt; Rosalind Webster Perry; Pewabic Pottery Archives; Private Collections; Raytheon Company; Rochester Museum & Science Center; Rockingham Free Public Library; Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center; Valentine Richmond History Center, Richmond, Virginia; Wichita–Sedgwick County Historical Museum; Wichita State University Libraries, Department of Special Collections; Winterthur Museum; Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc.
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