Section: Women And Their Professions
 

Directory: New York City History
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Section: Women Artists
Sub Section: Artist-Tamara de Lempicka
Web Link: Tamara de Lempicka 1898-1980 Art Portraits
Web Link: The Tamara de Lempicka Gallery
Web Link: Tamara de Lempicka Art Images
Web Link: Tamara de Lempicka: A life of Deco and Decadence By Laura Claridge.
Sub Section: Miscellaneous Female Artists
Web Link: Grandma Moises-Painter
Web Link: Sue Coe-Artist
Web Link: Anne Hall Miniaturist 1792-1863
Web Link: Helen Frankenthaler- Abstract Expressionism
Web Link: Mary Cassatt
Web Link: Janet Fish-Artist Profile
Web Link: Sarah Miriam Peale
Web Link: Cecilia Beaux 1855-1942
Web Link: Berenice Abbott 1898-1991 Photographer & Writer
Web Link: Diane Nemerov Arbus 1923-71 Photographer
Web Link: Margaret Bourke-White 1906-1971 Photographer
Web Link: Mary Stevenson Cassatt 1844-1926 Painter
Web Link: Harriet Goodhue Hosmer 1830-1908 Sculptor
Web Link: Edmonia Lewis 1845-after 1909 Sculptor
Web Link: Helen Farnsworth Mears 1872-1916 Sculptor
Web Link: Lilla Cabot Perry 1848-1933 Artist
Web Link: Jessie Willcox Smith 1863-1935 Painter & Illustrator
Web Link: Mary Morris Vaux Walcott 1860-1940 Artist & Naturalist
Web Link: Sally James Farnham: Accomplished Sculptress
Web Link: Sally James Farnham Organization-Sculptor                                           All links working a/o 10/20/08
Section: The Arts
Sub Section: Acting Profession
Web Link Leila Hyams Actress
Web Link Lucille Ball 1911-1989 Actress
Web Link Katherine Hepburn (1909- ) Actress
Web Link Angela Lansbury (1925- ) Actress
Web Link Gertrude Edelstein Berg 1899-1966 Actress, Producer and Screenwriter
Web Link Josephine Baker 1906-1975 Entertainer
Web Link Gracie Allen 1902-1964 Performer & Comic
Web Link Adah Isaacs Menken 1835-1868 Actress & Poet
Web Link Maggie Mitchell 1832-1918 Actress
Web Link Mabel Ethelreid Normand 1893?-1930 Actress
Web Link Jessica Tandy 1909-1994 Actress
Web Link Greta Garbo 1905-1990 Actress
Web Link Irene Worth (1916-) Actress
Web Link Helen Hayes 1900-1993 Actress
Web Link Barbra Streisand (1942-) Singer, Actor and Film Producer
Web Link Judy Garland (1922-1969) Actor & Singer
Web Link Portraits of Women-Mary Martin
Web Link Portraits of Women-Ethel Barrymore
Web Link Portraits of Women-Carol Channing
Web Link Portraits of Women-Diahann Carroll
Web Link Portraits of Women-Tallulah Bankhead
Web Link Women in Theater
Web Link From Ziegfield To Seinfeld: Remembering Fanny Brice
Web Link Molly Picon, All-American Maydl                                                                           all links working a/o 10/20/08
Sub Section: Dance Profession
Web Link Isadora Duncan 1878-1927 Dancer
Web Link Ginger Rogers 1911-1995
Web Link Melissa Hayden (1923-) Ballet Dancer
Web Link Pearl Primus 1919-1994 Dancer, Choreographer
Web Link Cynthia Gregory  (1946-) Ballet Dancer
Web Link Augusta Maywood 1825-1876 Dancer
Web Link Nora Kaye 1920-1987 Ballet Dancer
Web Link Martha Clarke (1944-) Choreographer and Dancer
Web Link Suzanne Farrell (1945-) Ballet Dancer
Web Link Sarah Billings
Web Link Martha Graham, Dancer and Choreographer
Web Link Martha Graham Choreographer
Web Link The Rockettes 1925- Precision Dance Team                                                         all links working a/o 10/20/08
Sub Section: Voice Profession
Web Link Pearl Mae Bailey 1918-1990 Singer & Entertainer
Web Link Portraits of Women-Ella Fitzgerald
Web Link Portraits of Women-Lena Horne
Web Link Eartha Kitt-singer
Web Link Barbra Streisand (1942-) Singer, Actor and Film Producer
Web Link Judy Garland (1922-1969) Actor & Singer
Web Link Adelina Patti 1843-1919 Opera Singer
Web Link Marian Anderson 1902-1993 Opera Singer
Web Link Ethel Merman 1909-1984 Singer & Actor
Web Link Kate Smith 1909-1986 Singer
Web Link Amelita Galli-Curci 1882-1963 Opera Singer
Web Link Dorothy Kirsten 1910-1992 Opera Singer
Web Link The St. Cecilia Chorus & Orchestra                                                                       all links working a/o 10/20/08
Sub Section: Musicians, Composers
Web Link Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler 1863-1927 Pianist
Web Link Olga Samaroff 1882-1948 Pianist
Web Link Nora Post, Oboist Performer: Professional Biography
Web Link Three Generations of Rigoutat Oboes-A Nora Post Publication
Web Link Multiphonics for the Oboe - Nora Post Publication
Web Link Military Women Musicians
Web Link Penina Moise: America's First Female Jewish Poet and Hymnist
Web Link Julia Etta Crane: Pioneer Music Educator
Web Link Helen Hosmer: Music Educator                                                                         all links working a/o 10/20/08
Section: Businesswomen
Web Link Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business
Web Link Women Inventors A-Z
Web Link Sylvia Woodbridge Beach 1887-1962 Bookseller & Publisher
Web Link Henrietta Howland Green 1834-1916 Financier
Web Link Sara Breedlove Walker 1867-1919 Businesswoman
Web Link Lydia Estes Pinkham 1819-1883 Businesswoman
Web Link Anna Sutherland Bissell
Web Link Lane Bryant Malsin: Fashion Revolutionary
Web Link Regina Horowitz Margareten: Matriarch of the Kosher Food Industry?
Web Link Muriel "Mickey" Siebert: First Woman To Own A Seat on the Stock Exchange    all links working a/o 10/20/08
Section: Clubwomen, Organizations and Associations
Web Link National Association of Colored Women 1896 Organization
Web Link American Association of University Women Organization 1881
Web Link Fannie Barrier Williams 1855-1944 Clubwoman
Web Link National Council of Jewish Women 1893 Organization
Web Link Young Women's Christian Association 1855 Organization
Web Link The Colony Club
Article Name: The Colony Club's Full List of Members in Its First Year
Web Link National Society, Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century
Web Link Dames of the Loyal Legion
Web Link Alice Davis Menken-Daughters of the American Revolution
Web Link Henrietta Szold: Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
Web Link Daughters of the American Revolution 1890 Organization
Web Link Hadassah 1912 Organization                                                                               all links working a/o 10/19/08
Section: Crime, Vice and Notoriety
Article Name: The Vice of Prostitution Pre-1885
Article Name: Prostitution As A Tenement House Evil                                                Posted 2/22/08
Article Name: Concert Saloons and Waiter Girls
Article Name: Madame Restell, the Female Abortionist
Article Name: Fortune Tellers and Clairvoyants
Article Name: The Dance Houses
Article Name: She Choked It: How A Young Mother Murdered Her Child 1887                            Posted 9/6/07
Article Name: Interred In A Cellar: Remains of A Child Are Found 1885                                       Posted 9/8/07
Web Link Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephan Crane (She had tramped the streets for weeks on her weary errand, and the only living wages that were offered her were the wages of sin.)
Web Link Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 by Marilynn Wood Hill (E-Book)
Web Link The Girl In Green: Helen Jewett, Prostitute
Web Link The Mary Surratt Story: Involved in the President Lincoln Assasination
Web Link Ladies Go A Stealing 1870 Incident
Web Link Evelyn Nesbitt: The Girl On The Swing
Web Link The Bordens of Fall River, Massachusettes: Lizzie Borden
Web Link Typhoid Mary
Web Link Ada and Minna Everleigh 1876-1960, 1878-1948 Madams
Web Link Belle Starr 1848-1889
Web Link Heidi Fleiss, The Million Dollar Madam
Web Link Chipita Rodgriguez-A Lynching
Web Link Two Sixshooters and a Sunbonnet: The Story of Sally Skull
Web Link Bonnie Parker-Outlaw
Web Link Adah Isaacs Menken 1835-1868: Notorious, Infamous "Mazeppa"
Web Link America's First Glamour Girl: Adah Isaacs Menken
Web Link Etta Place: A Most Wanted Woman
Web Link Velma Barfield: Black Widow Serial Poisoner
Web Link Diane Downs Shot Her Three Children
Web Link Virginia of Virginia: Red-Hot Mama of the Forties 1845
Web Link Polly Bodine, Murderess: A Staten Island Tragedy
Web Link The Notorious Abby Sage                                                                                                           
Web Link "Red Emma" Goldman's Jewish Anarchism: Notorious Radical Lecturer in the United States.         
Web Link Beverley Allitt: Suffer the Children
Web Link Missing Mamma: The Lena Baker Story
Web Link Sue Basso
Web Link Lady of Blood: Countess Bathory
Web Link Joyce Lemay Cohen: Murder in Miami
Web Link Nannie Doss: Lonely Hearts Lady Loved Her Man to Death
Web Link Kathleen Folbigg Story: Her Father's Daughter                                            all links working as of 10/20/08
                                                                      
Section: Education
Web Link Jewish Foundation For Education of Women Records 1880-1988
Web Link Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues and Challenges
Article Name: Private, Boarding and Finishing Schools for Young Ladies-1891
Article Name: Private, Boarding and Finishing Schools for Young Ladies-1893-94
Article Name: Private, Boarding and Finishing Schools for Young Ladies-1895
Article Name: Private, Boarding and Finishing Schools for Young Ladies-1910
Web Link Mordecai's Female Academy:1809
Web Link National Women's Hall of Fame 1969-Educational Institution
Web Link Vassar College 1861 Institution
Web Link Radcliffe College 1879 Institution
Web Link Troy Female Seminary 1821-Institution
Web Link Bryn Mawr College 1885 Institution
Web Link Spelman College 1881
Web Link Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassez 1822-1907 Educator
Web Link United States PTA Founders
Web Link Sarah Raymond Koch: Young School Teacher 1919
Web Link Achieving Excellence in the Teaching Profession
Web Link The Education of Women: e-book                                                                    all links working a/o 10/20/08
Section: Fashion
Web Link Modeling: The Gibson Girl Early 1900's
Web Link 1700-1799 Bissonnette on Costume
Web Link 1800-1829
Web Link 1837-1856 Early Victorian Dresses
Web Link 1840-1859 Bissonnette on Costume
Web Link 1870-1876
Web Link 1883-1889
Web Link 1890-1899
Web Link 1895 Wedding Gown
Web Link 1900-1909
Web Link 1910-1919
Web Link 1914-1920 Towards Dress Reform
Web Link 1920-1929
Web Link