The Milwaukee Woman Who Resisted The Reich
Only one American woman was ever executed by direct order of Adolf Hitler, and that woman was born right here in Milwaukee. Her name was Mildred Fish-Harnack, and she was amazing.
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Women's History Month 2015
March is Women's History Month! Follow the Now@MPL blog throughout the month to learn more about the women who helped shape our world.
Read moreLouise Blanchard Bethune, Pioneering Architect
Louise Blanchard Bethune (July 21, 1856 - December 18, 1913) was the first woman known to have worked as a professional architect in the United States. Born Jennie Louise Blanchard in Waterloo, New York, she had two educated parents (her father was a school principal; her mother a teacher) and as was common at the time, was herself educated at home. Her parents eventually moved…
Read moreGeorgia O'Keeffe: Mother Of American Modernism
Numerous paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe hang at the Milwaukee Art Museum which is not surprising as they are to be found in museums all around the world. Wisconsin, though, is her birthplace. Georgia O'Keeffe was born on a wheat farm just outside of Sun Prairie. She attended Town Hall School in Sun Prairie and by the age of ten was declaiming herself to be an…
Read moreRuth Harkness: Fashion Designer Turned Conservationist
American fashion designer Ruth Harkness (1900-1947) stunned the world when she brought a live baby panda to the United States in 1936. Harkness, considered a party girl, accomplished something other experienced explorers and hunters tried and failed to do for almost one hundred years. Born in 1900 and raised in Philadelphia by a family that struggled to make ends meet, Ruth tried a variety of…
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