Sunday, January 6, 2013

AUSTEN, ALICE: Legendary Photographer (c) By Polly Guerin

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Alice Austen’s white cottage still stands at the water’s edge in the neighborhood of Clifton on Staten Island--- a testament to Alice’s lo...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

GREEN, HETTY: THE EMPRESS OF FINANCE (c) By Polly Guerin

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Henrietta Howland Robinson, known as Hetty Green, beat the robber barons at their own game; invested her dowry in bonds rather than in a h...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

GILBRETH, LILLIAN: Mother of Modern Management (c) By Polly Guerin

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One would hardly have expected Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), an American psychologist and industrial engineer to be one of t...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

BATH, PATRICIA DOCTOR, BLACK INVENTOR

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Imagine being born in the 1940s with the stresses associated with Harlem and World War II pending. One would not likely expect that a beau...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

VON NESSEN, GRETA INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER (c) By Polly Guerin

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Greta von Nessen may not be a household word today but when she created the Anywhere Lamp in 195l there was nothing like it, but at the sa...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

JULIETTE 'DAISY' GORDON LOW GIRL SCOUT LEADER (c) By Polly Guerin

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When I visited Savannah, Georgia I was delighted with the quaint neighborhoods with their English style gardens and Victorian houses, and ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

CABRERA,GLORIA Cosmetologist the Natural Way(c) By Polly Guerin

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Making clients beautiful has been the livelong ambition of Gloria Cabrera, a cosmetologist for over thirty years. A petite Philippine nati...