Grace M. Sparks 1893-1963
Grace Sparkes worked to develop and bring progress to northern Arizona. Many sights in northern Arizona, such as the land around the Montezuma Castle National Monument and Coronado Entrada National...
View ArticleClarissa Winson 1880-1974
Clarissa Winsor preserved Yuma Territorial Prison as its curator after it became a museum. She collected artifacts and stories about Yuma’s history her whole life and it became a top tourist attraction...
View ArticleSarah Herring Sorin 1861-1914
Sarah Herring Sorin wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps as a lawyer in a time when most lawyers were men and women were not allowed to serve on juries. She eventually joined her father in the...
View ArticleCarmen Soto de Vasquez 1861-1934
Carmen Soto de Vasquez founded the theater El Teatro Carmen in Tucson, home to Spanish-language productions, operas, musicals and dramas. She served as impresario for nine years before her family moved...
View ArticlePlacida Garcia Smith 1896-1981
Placida Elvira Garcia Smith became a teacher in 1915 and taught for most of her life. In 1931 she became director of the Friendly House which taught immigrants about their new country. She helped these...
View ArticleAnna Viola "Ola" Young 1869-1966
Anna Viola Young transformed Arizona’s Pleasant Valley from a dangerous home for two feuding families to a cattle town. Her father was a neutral figure who helped end the bloody Graham-Tewksbury feud....
View ArticleMargaret Sanger Slee 1879-1966
In Margaret Sanger Slee’s time, the Comstock Law banned the sale, importation, advertisement and mailing of birth control. Margaret was a family woman but also a nurse, and despite the law she informed...
View ArticleMinnie McFarland Stevens 1911-1986
Minnie McFarland Stevens worked for the Arizona Game and Fish for 32 years. She originally was a guide and asked fishermen for information, such as what kind of lure and boat they were using. This...
View ArticleAnnie Dodge Wauneka 1910-1997
Annie Dodge Wauneka was a Navajo woman and the daughter of Chee Dodge, the first chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council. Her father taught Annie the importance of education and politics, and after he...
View ArticleFlorence Brookhart Yount 1909-1988
Florence Yount was the first woman physician in Prescott. She devoted herself to her community through obstetrics and pediatrics and civic projects aimed at improving public health. She established a...
View ArticleWhole Quilt and Plaque 1985a
A custom-made quilt depicting, left to right and top to bottom Arizona Women's Hall of Fame inductees (left to right and top to bottom): Eulalia Elias, Nellie Cashman, Sallie Davis Hayden, Rachel Emma...
View ArticleWhole Quilt and Plaque 1985b
A custom-made quilt depicting, left to right and top to bottom Arizona Women's Hall of Fame inductees Mary Russell Ferrell Colton, Laura E. Herron, Placida Garcia Smith, Jane H. Rider, Ida Redbird,...
View ArticleWhole Quilt and Plaque 1986
A custom-made quilt depicting, left to right and top to bottom Arizona Women's Hall of Fame inductees Carmen Soto de Vasquez, Maie Bartlett-Heard, Sharlot Hall, Isabella Greenway King, Amy Cornwall...
View ArticleWhole Quilt and Plaque 1988
A custom-made quilt depicting, left to right and top to bottom Arizona Women's Hall of Fame inductees Grace Chapella, Hallie B. Hopkins, Mary V. Riley, Thamar Richey, Sister Clara Otero, and Josephine...
View ArticleWhole Quilt and Plaque 1991
A custom-made quilt depicting, left to right and top to bottom Arizona Women's Hall of Fame inductees Grace Chapella, Hallie B. Hopkins, Mary V. Riley, Thamar Richey, Sister Clara Otero, and Josephine...
View ArticleWhole Quilt and Plaque 2002-2004
A custom-made quilt depicting, left to right and top to bottom Arizona Women's Hall of Fame inductees Mary Elizabeth Post, Clara Lee Tanner, Annie Dodge Wauneka, Winona E. Montgomery, Louise Lincoln...
View ArticleWhole Quilt and Plaque 2006
A custom-made quilt depicting, left to right and top to bottom Arizona Women's Hall of Fame inductees Ethel Maynard, Patricia Ann McGee, Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton, Polly Rosenbaum, and Jessie Gray...
View ArticleExhibit Acknowledgments
Museum plaque listing acknowledgments for Arizona Women's Hall of Fame Exhibit
View ArticleExhibit Introduction
Museum plaque presenting an overview of the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame Exhibit.
View ArticleWhole Quilt and Plaques 1989
A custom-made quilt depicting, left to right and top to bottom Arizona Women's Hall of Fame inductees Mary "Mollie" E. Fly, Jessie Benton Evans, Eulalia "Sister" Bourne, Clara T. Woody, Minnie K....
View ArticleEdith Stratton Kitt 1878-1968
Edith Stratton Kitt became the secretary of the Arizona Pioneer’s Historical Society in 1925. Although her title was officially ‘secretary,’ she ended up performing many jobs. She became a librarian,...
View ArticleIsabella Greenway King 1886-1953
Isabella Greenway was widowed twice and often had to raise her children alone but was still active and successful in her community. She was involved in business by operating a ranch and an inn. She was...
View ArticleLouise Lincoln Kerr 1892-1977
Louise Lincoln Kerr was a musical theorist, performer in a symphony and composer in the early 20th century at a time when such behavior was prohibited for women. She was one of the first two women to...
View ArticleAmy Cornwall Neal 1888-1972
Amy Cornwall Neal was a business leader from her home and her family’s cattle business and supported cultural preservation of Arizona’s History. She worked as a Harvey Girl before she married John Neal...
View ArticlePatricia Ann McGee 1926-1994
Patricia McGee followed in the footsteps of her grandmother, Viola Jimulla. Patricia helped her Yavapai tribe by serving on the tribal council and leading economic development. Her achievements include...
View ArticleEthel Maynard 1905-1980
Ethel Maynard was a registered nurse who worked in hospitals and schools. She was a community activist who worked to desegregate schools, public facilities and employment. She served on the board for...
View ArticleNampeyo 1860-1942
Nampeyo was a Hopi potter. She had been designing pottery for years by the time the ruin of Sikyatki was excavated, but from these artifacts she revived an ancient and lost Hopi art style. Her pottery...
View ArticleLorna Lockwood 1903-1977
Lorna Lockwood followed in her father’s footsteps to become a lawyer. She was the only woman in her graduating class, but president of her school’s bar association. She then worked as a stenographer,...
View ArticleHattie Greene Lockett 1880-1962
Hattie was a schoolteacher until she met her husband, Henry Lockett. After they married she raised two children and founded several associations and helped turn her Washington School into a community...
View ArticleJessie Harper Linde 1887-1965
Jessie Harper Linde attended the St. Louis Conservatory of Music and sang with the fledgling St. Louis Opera, but eventually settled in Arizona for her health. She worked with the Phoenix Musician’s...
View ArticleFrances Lillian Willard Munds 1866-1948
Frances Munds was a grandmother actively involved in women’s suffrage organizations. In 1915, three years after she helped women win the right to vote in Arizona, she became the first woman senator in...
View ArticleWinona E. Montgomery 1898-1990
Winona Montgomery taught in Phoenix for 40 years before she became a champion for senior citizens. She was also involved with professional and social organizations, supported the educational television...
View ArticleIda Redbird 1892-1971
Ida Redbird was a master potter of the Maricopa tribe. Ida helped revive Maricopa pottery and was known for using the ancient paddle and anvil technique of potting. She fought to raise awareness of...
View ArticleJane H. Rider 1889-1981
Jane Rider devoted herself to the health of Arizonans for over 50 years. She helped publicize sanitation problems in Arizona’s water and to prove the link between infant mortality and unpasteurized...
View ArticlePolly Rosenbaum 1899-2003
Polly Rosenbaum remains Arizona’s longest serving legislator, serving in the House of Representatives from 1949 until 1994. She reined in finances, supported education and libraries, and funded...
View ArticleMary V. Riley 1908-1987
Mary Riley was a White Mountain Apache who devoted her life to improving conditions for her tribe. She became the first woman elected to the tribal council in 1958. She is credited for bringing the...
View ArticleThamar Richey 1858-1937
Thamar Richey came to Arizona in 1919, at age sixty-one. Four years later she started a school for Pascua Yaqui children. She did not know the Yaqui language, but many of the children knew Spanish....
View ArticleSister Clara Otero 1850-1905
Gabriella Martinez Otero was a young woman when many changes happened to her home. She saw the purchase of southern Arizona from Mexico and met the first six nuns to settle in Tucson. The nuns’...
View ArticleRuth Reinhold 1902-1985
Ruth Reinhold was one of the first woman pilots in Arizona. She met her second husband, Robert Reinhold, while working at the Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix as a charter pilot, airplane vendor and...
View ArticleMinna Vrang Orme 1892-1970
Minne and her husband, Charles Orme, were both Stanford graduates who settled in Phoenix and eventually Ash Creek as ranchers. They established a school on their ranch with the approval of the nearby...
View ArticleElizabeth S. Oldaker 1884-1975
Elizabeth Oldaker was appointed by the Daughters of the American Revolution to preserve Arizona’s history and treasures from prehistoric to modern times. There was no museum for her to put her...
View ArticleMary Elizabeth Post 1841-1934
Mary Elizabeth Post was a private tutor in New York before she moved westward, eventually settling in Yuma. In Yuma she became a schoolteacher where all of her students only spoke Spanish. While she...
View ArticlePolingaysi Qoyawayma 1892-1990
Polingaysi Qoyawayma grew up in a Hopi village during a time of incredible change. While most of her family wanted to live traditionally, Polingaysi left to adopt a new way of life. She left her family...
View ArticleClara T. Woody 1885-1981
Clara Woody was interested in Arizona’s pioneer history and was asked to write a history of Globe and Miami in Gila County. She did so through collecting oral histories, photographs and artifacts....
View ArticleClara Lee Tanner 1905-1997
Clara Lee Tanner was a specialist in Arizona’s archaeology and cultural anthropology. She was the authority on Indians of the Southwest and helped people understand the history of the many different...
View ArticleMaria Urquides 1908-1994
Maria Urquides grew up in a diverse neighborhood in Tucson where she understood the need for bilingual teachers. After earning her Master’s degree in education from the University of Arizona, she...
View ArticleLouisa Wetherill 1877-1945
Louise Wetherill and her family moved to a trading post near the Navajo reservation. Although she was not trained as an ethnologist, she became a known expert on Navajo culture. She was a popular...
View ArticleElsie Toles 1888-1957
Elsie Toles was Arizona’s first woman superintendent of education. As superintendent she was automatically a member of five boards, including the State Parole Board. As a woman board member, many death...
View ArticleElizabeth Shannon 1906-1985
Elizabeth studied education, history, political science and physical education at the University of Arizona. She made these fields of study her focus after graduation, when she began teaching. She...
View ArticleAnna Moore Shaw 1898-1976
Anna Shaw was a Pima woman from the Gila Indian Reservation. Her father converted to Christianity when she was 10, and at that point she was immersed in Anglo culture. She had to quickly learn English...
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