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- Photo of Dorothy Leonard Judd (Mrs. Siegel W. Judd) holding a booklet that she edited entitled "Our City Government." Judd, a graduate of Vassar College, became active in the League of Women Voters in the 1920 and 1930s. She later turned her concern to cleaning up local government in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She also worked for the development of Civil Service and higher education. Photo was taken for the Grand Rapids Herald on March 5, 1948 and ran in the Herald the next day.
- Date Created:
- 1948-03-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Emma Cole was a teacher at Central High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan for 26 years. She was the author of the botanical book," Grand Rapids Flora." She also did work in the Arnold arboretum in Boston and traveled extensively collecting specimens of plants. Photo circa 1910.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Unidentified woman standing next to a portrait of a woman.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Dr. Kendrik was a bacteriologist with the Mihcigan Department of Health who developed (with Grace Eldering) the first successful vaccine for whooping cough in the 1930s, which all but eliminated a disease that had taken the lives of thousands of children. Kendrik and Eldering later combined shots for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus into the single DPT vaccine given to children today.
- Date Created:
- 1942-06-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Photograph of Hattie Beverly, Grand Rapids' first African American teacher.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Photograph of Bessie Minisee, the daughter of George Henry Minisee and Helen Thompson. She would later marry Charles Allen.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Etta Wilson was known as Michigan's first newspaper woman. She was reporter for the Herald, covering topics from society to sports. She later worked for the Detroit Sunday News-Tribune. She was also a lecturer and an ornithologist.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Unidentified woman standing next to a portrait of a woman, this time wearing a hat and in profile.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Helen Kuiper poses at her job as an operator for the Bell Telephone Company in Grand Rapids on July 27, 1946.
- Date Created:
- 1946-07-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)