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Alice's Drive: Women Who Drove the Century

Website about a 2009 effort to recreate the landmark cross-country drive of Alice Ramsey, who, in 1909, became "the first woman to drive across America." Features background about Ramsey's 1909 Maxwell DA and a facsimile vehicle, Ramsey's 1 ...

http://aliceramsey.org/

Mollie Orshansky

This brief biography profiles Orshansky's lifetime achievements and contributions to U.S. government service, notably at the Social Security Administration (SSA), where she developed the "poverty threshold," the original measure of poverty. ...

http://www.ssa.gov/history/orshansky.html

Jean Thomas, The Traipsin' Woman, Collection

Collection of over a thousand digitized materials related to Jean Thomas (1881-1982), who was known as "The Traipsin' Woman," and "who traveled the mountains of eastern Kentucky taking snapshot photographs of the mountain way of life, ...

http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/jthom/

Ohioana Authors: Mildred Wirt Benson

Biography of Mildred Wirt Benson, journalist and writer of juvenile series books, including 23 of the first Nancy Drew mysteries (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Includes a list of her works, awards and honors, audio of a radio feature on Benson, ...

http://www.ohioana-authors.org/benson/

Natalie Vivian Scott

This exhibit celebrates Natalie Vivian Scott (1890-1957), "decorated war hero, a celebrated newspaperwoman, an award winning playwright, a wilderness explorer, a Red Cross nurse, translator, teacher and social worker." She was "the onl ...

http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/NVS/NVS_Home.htm

Sadako and the Paper Cranes

Companion to an exhibit about Sadako Sasaki, who was "born in 1943 and experienced the [Hiroshima] bombing at age two [and died in 1955]. She was healthy and athletically gifted growing up, but ten years after the bombing, she was suddenly hospi ...

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/exhibit_e/exh0107_e/exhi_top_e.html

The Nobel Peace Prize 1979: Mother Teresa

Background about Roman Catholic nun Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Macedonia), who was awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work in Calcutta, India, and other areas. Includes a biography, Nobel lecture, press release ...

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/

The Mildred Wirt Benson Collection

This digital collection contains over one hundred artifacts concerning Mildred Wirt Benson, "journalist, pilot, amateur archaeologist, ghostwriter, and the original author of the best-selling Nancy Drew mystery series [as Carolyn Keene]." F ...

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/mwb/

Vivienne Westwood

This site is a companion to an exhibit about British punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. The site features an overview of her career (including her collaboration with Malcolm McLaren in the 1970s and 1980s), a virtual tour of the exhibit, images ...

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1231_vivienne_westwood/

A Pilot and an Adventurer: Mildred Wirt Benson

This 2002 obituary provides biographical details about Mildred ("Millie") Wirt Benson, "newspaper reporter for more than eight decades and author of the first 23 Nancy Drew mysteries that inspired generations of readers." Includes ...

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2002105290069

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