Margaret Bourke-White at the ready standing by airplane propeller and fully garbed in leather fleece lined flight suit, camera in hand. 1943
Alice Guy-Blache French pioneer filmmaker who was the first female director in the motion picture industry
Miss Dorothy Levitt, in a 26hp Napier, Brooklands, 1908. In 1903 she won her class at the Southport Speed Trials. In 1906 she broke the women's world...
Augusta Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1st wife of William King the first earl. She was the daughter of poet Lord Byron and the computer language ADA was...
Portrait of American businesswoman, philanthropist, and activist Madam CJ Walker , 1913. She is widely considered the first female, self-made...
Astronomer Maria Mitchell , standing second from left, next to a telescope, is shown with her astronomy class outside the observatory, at Vassar...
Elizabeth Eckford ignores the hostile screams and stares of fellow students on her first day of school, 6th September 1957. She was one of the nine...
Portrait of English-born American doctor Elizabeth Blackwell the first woman physician in the United States, circa 1850.