Gallery
Below are a handful of images featuring women we have profiled here, as well as their colleagues and workplaces. To see focused collections from specific institutions, click on the links below.
Front row, L to R: Margaret Murray Washington, Mary McLeod Bethune, Lucy Craft Laney, Mary Jackson McCrorey. Second Row, L to R: Janie Porter Barrett, M.L. Crosthwaite, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Eugenia Burns Hope. Source: National Park Service (linked in photo).
The lab in the domestic science department of the Boston Cooking School, c 1896. Source: Boston Cooking School Magazine Archive (linked in photo).
Domestic scientists at the inaugural Lake Placid Convention in 1899. L to R: Annie Dewey, Maria Daniell, Ellen Swallow Richards, Alice Peloubet Norton, Maria Parloa. Source: MariaParloa.com (linked in photo).
Women in laundry class at the Boston Cooking School, 1890s. Source: Boston Cooking School Magazine Archive (linked in photo).
Nannie Helen Burroughs (front row, far left). Source: National Museum of American History (linked in photo).
Students at the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, c 1920. Source: National Park Service (linked in photo).
Girls' Cooking Class at Table, at South End House. Source: Harvard Art Museums (linked in photo).
The Woman’s Building at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. Source: Shepp’s World’s Fair Photographed (linked in photo).
Students sit down to eat in the dining room at the Tuskegee Institute, c. 1902. Source: National Park Service (linked in photo).