Legendary Ladies Undercover Assignments in Places Like Roosevelt Which Appears on Every Dime
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Mills, Pennsylvania. As a reporter for the known work, although not often attrib- move from Scotland to Pittsburgh where and at the Carnegie Internationals. Mary Pittsburgh. The Company, a vital cultural enduring words were her sketches of Museum, Car and Carriage Museum, Pittsburgh area, recognizing famous of the Junior Leagues of America. Kathryn was a divorcee and openly Pittsburgh Dispatch, she took on risky uted to her, is the portrait of Franklin D. they had relatives. After making a for- was a fierce advocate for education and force for 20 years, performed European middle-class life in idyllic, small-town Visitors’ Center and Museum Shop, MARTHA GRAHAM people, places, and events. A tablet in Mrs. Harry Darlington, Jr. was the enjoyed the expensive lifestyle her legendary ladies undercover assignments in places like Roosevelt which appears on every dime. tune in steel, Andrew founded the women’s rights. Seventeen of Mary’s works, such as Verdi’s Aida and La Traviata, “Old Chester,” and the adventures of Greenhouse, and The Café at the Frick. memory of Julia Hogg was dedicated on first president. Early efforts focused ministry afforded her. Nevertheless, sweatshops, slums, and jails. It was She was named a Distinguished Daughter Carnegie Institute of Technology (now works are part of the Carnegie Museum and African-American works, such as country parson Dr. Lavendar. Margaret It is Helen’s legacy to her hometown. June 10, 1941, on the 50th anniversary on volunteer work in hospitals, she was wildly popular, ministering George Madden, the managing editor of of Pennsylvania in 1993. Carnegie Mellon University), and the of Art’s permanent collection. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses and was elected to the National Institute of of the Pittsburgh Chapter. It is located orphanages, and settlement houses to an estimated 100,000,000 people greater the paper, who gave her the pen name School for Women was named in honor Clarence Cameron White’s Ouanga. Arts and Letters in 1926. 42 THE FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER in Highland Park on the reservoir stair in Pittsburgh and Sewickley. Today, during her career. A GUIDE TO WHERE WOMEN Nellie Bly from the song written by 28 HILL HOUSE CENTER of his mother. It was intended for the 39 CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART 43 FRICK PARK entrance wall. with 390 active and sustaining mem- pittsburgh Pittsburgh’s Stephen Foster. She was the 39 CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART limited training of women in secretarial 32 7101 APPLE STREET 14 1300 BLOCK OF LIVERPOOL STREET 46 THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY bers, the Junior League is an organi- 5 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MADE HISTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA first woman to become a member of the work, household economics, costume 62 FRICK FINE ARTS BUILDING 10 FORT PITT BLOCKHOUSE zation of women committed to pro- 19 HAZLETT THEATER region Pittsburgh Press Club. Moving to the New design, and “general science.” In token of Willa Cather (1873-1947) 44 HIGHLAND PARK moting voluntarism, developing the 31 4405 BIGELOW BOULEVARD PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION FOR WOMEN York World, she continued practicing Margaret Byington (1877-1965) this the inner frieze of its elliptical open- Margaret Wade Campbell Caroline Endres Diescher potential of women, and improving 40 CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather spent (1846-1930) Martha Graham (1894-1991) Edward G. Rendell, Governor undercover “stunt reporting.” Results of Margaret Byington was born in air entrance rotunda has the inscription: ten years in Pittsburgh from 1896 to 1906. Deland (1857-1945) communities in the Pittsburgh RACHEL CARSON RACHEL Jane Holmes (1805-1885) her investigations into the Women’s Constantinople (now Istanbul), the “To make and inspire the home; To A graduate of the University of Nebraska, Prussian-born engineer John J. Endres World-famous American dancer, region. Signature projects include Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island capital of the Ottoman Empire. lessen suffering and increase hap- she was first hired as managing editor of a Author and social activist Margaret Deland trained his daughter Caroline in engineer- teacher, and choreographer Martha Jane Holmes, humanitarian, and one of establishment of The Children’s Susan E. Laird (dates unknown) were turned into a book, Ten Days in a She was a 30-year-old social piness; To aid mankind in its new Pittsburgh publication, Home Monthly, was born in Allegheny City, now the North ing. She assisted her father on the design Graham grew up in Allegheny City, now Pittsburgh’s earliest philanthropists, came Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Josephine McKim (b. 1910) Madhouse, published in 1888. Her most upward struggles; To ennoble Side of Pittsburgh. As a child Margaret Side, Vintage, Inc. in East Liberty for worker when she left a posi- and then, in 1897, went to work for the of the Monongahela Incline, the first Pittsburgh’s North Side. Her father was to Pittsburgh in 1807 with her parents, Lenore Kight Wingard (1911-2000) famous feat, however, occurred in 1889 tion as District Secretary for and adorn life’s work, howev- Pittsburg [sic] Leader. Her work brought her lived for a time in the Manchester neigh- passenger incline in the Pittsburgh area, a family doctor, and his consulting Nathaniel and Eleanor Kerr Holmes, seniors, HEARTH in the North Hills The historic places following when she set out to beat the record of Associated Charities of er humble; These are interviews with the city’s brightest people, borhood, upon which she later based her which began operation in 1870 and still rooms and dispensary occupied the immigrants from Northern Ireland. for displaced women and children, Anna Mae Gorman (b. 1916) building in memory of his mother, Anna Jules Verne’s fictional character, Phileas Boston to participate in women’s high prerogatives.” and she had time and opportunity for “Old Chester” novels and short stories. survives (though rebuilt). She also helped ground floor of the Grahams’ home at Raised in a deeply religious family, she and The Caring Place and Three each biography are keyed to Margaretta Schmidt, who immigrated to Fogg, for traveling around the world in 80 the classic six-volume The inscription was almost book reviewing and concert-going. At the While living in Boston, she and her hus- him design the Mount Oliver Incline (now 51 Fremont Street, now Brighton Road inherited considerable wealth from her Rivers Adoption Council in down- the maps on the reverse side. America from Germany in 1843. Brought days. She completed the trip in 72 days Pittsburgh Survey of 1907- subjected to a grinding theater, she met Isabelle McClung, daugh- band Lorin F. Deland championed unwed gone) of 1871. That year, she married her near California Avenue. According to father and devoted her life and substance town Pittsburgh. The women’s swimming team spon- up in a strict Lutheran home, Anna had a and became a national icon. 1908: a work which con- wheel around 1990, the ter of Judge Samuel A. McClung. In 1901, mothers, and housed 60 of them and their father’s business partner Samuel biographer Russell Freedman, the to charity. Jane became a leading sored by the Carnegie Library of thorough knowledge of the Bible. In his 18 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH tinues to provide scope of womanhood being Isabelle convinced Willa to come live in infants in their home from 1880 to 1884. Diescher, who designed the Duquesne Grahams’ nanny, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Episcopalian churchwoman at a time Homestead dominated women’s Maxine Goldmark Aaron 8 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE BUILDING deemed too narrowly Divorce, adultery, women’s suffrage, and will, Heinz described his mother as “a 47 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PITTSBURGH swimming nationally from 1928 to researchers in-depth the McClung house in Squirrel Hill. Willa Incline, completed in 1877. The Duquesne Prendergast, a young Irish immigrant, when few social services existed and MCMASTERS MILLER HUNT RACHEL (1903-1996) woman of strong faith, and to it I attrib- information about life in defined. was hired to teach at Central High School single motherhood were themes featured Incline is still in operation, although now opened Martha’s eyes to the magic of most of the city’s charitable work 1934, and four club members—Susan ute any success I may have attained dur- Maxine Aaron married into a Pittsburgh early 20th-century (once in the Lower Hill), and in 1903 trans- in Margaret’s novels, poetry, and essays. it is electrically driven. The Dieschers the theater. In 1908, when Martha was was done by women. Jane’s will Laird, Josephine McKim, Lenore Kight Margaret Boyle Brown 38 MARGARET MORRISON ing my life.” Heinz Memorial Chapel was family of educational activists—her Pittsburgh. Byington was ferred to Allegheny High School. Also in Nevertheless, her most popular and lived on Mt. Washington, on Spring Street 14, the Grahams moved to Santa reveals a comprehensive Agnes R. Katz Wingard, and Anna Mae Gorman— (1862-1938) CARNEGIE HALL completed in 1938. Its glass, by Charles J. (1915-1987) father-in-law, Marcus Aaron, served on one of a group of reformers 1903, Cather published her first book, April and later on Garden Street, close to the Barbara, CA. In time, Martha became a understanding of the city’s competed in the Olympics. All were Connick of Boston (trained in Pittsburgh), daughters of Homestead mill work- the Board of Public Education for 36 After the death of her husband— who investigated, document- Twilights; unsatisfied with the book of inclines they constructed. major artist of the 20th century and, in human needs. She Katz Plaza in includes four stained-glass windows ers. Josephine won the bronze medal years. As her four children entered the Pittsburgh coal and coke magnate ed, and publicized the life of the poems, she bought and destroyed as many MARY CARDWELL DAWSON the words of Freedman, an “electrifying bequeathed to 17 organi- Pittsburgh's Cultural Rachel Carson 23 DUQUESNE INCLINE which are among the world’s tallest.