#coolchicksfromhistory

[axalendra]

Catherine I of Russia for @coolchicksfromhistory

http://axalendra.deviantart.com/art/Catherine-I-of-Russia-690061414?ga_submit_new=10%3A1499026149&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1

[athiri]

After doing lots of doodles and sketches gonna start on my final piece for CoolChicksFromHistory's project today. Exciting.

[cancelledcouture]

[breakfastautocrat]

For you: Anna Strong When you're done with your drawing, you can email it to coolchicksfromhistory at gmail. Please include how you want to be credited (real name? tumblr name?) and any links (tumblr, deviant art, website, whatever). Please send it by July 2. Thanks!

Alright, thank you!  Is it alright that I publish this?  I'd like to be able to look back at this for future reference.

[thelifeguardlibrarian]

Recommendations, please.

Books by or about Eleanor Roosevelt. Where to start?

[tookmyskull]

Guess who? 

Try Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke (Aug. 7, 1884-May 14, 1970) was much more than that. She was the child of a showbiz family who became the toast of Broadway and married Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., of Ziegfeld Follies fame. 

She began acting in plays at age 19 at London's West End, while her father, a singer, was performing there. After returning to America, she was much in demand in Broadway comedies. She preferred the stage because silent films denied her speaking parts, but with the advent of sound, she liked both.

She continued to act on both stage and screen and hosted her own radio show. She died after a long, successful life at age 85.

She's my history crush and besides, how can you not love that outfit.

[obitoftheday]

Tumblr Crushes:

life

todaysdocument

joshsternberg

world-shaker

coolchicksfromhistory

lookhigh

brooklynmutt

themodernhistory

newamsterdamlemonade

OK since I hit a nice milestone yesterday, I thought I should also tip my cap to those Tumblrs I most enjoy. So here they are. Some photos (LIFE and New Amsterdam), history (Today's Document, Cool Chicks, and The Modern History), politics/current events (Josh Sternberg and Brooklyn Mutt), education (World Shaker) and miscellany (Look High...no offense).

Also a shout out to my two favorite baseball Tumblrs: Old Time Family Baseball and Mighty Flynn. I'm not crushin' on them right now because it's the off-season and they just don't post as much. But I'm anxiously awaiting Spring Training. Which is in 64 days and 8 hours, but who's counting? (Well these guys.)

Enjoy your weekends! Enjoy my Archive. See you Monday.

[tookmyskull]

Mary Mahoney was born in Boston in 1845; an unverified report gives the date as Aril 16. She lived with her parents, Charles Mahoney and Mary Jane Steward Mahoney, at 31 Westminster Street in Roxbury.

Could she have known how much her enrollment in a school of nursing was to mean to the future of nursing, that knowledge might have helped her over the rough places where she trod. It might have eased for her the fatigue of the 16 hour day and the weariness of the 7 day week devoted to washing and ironing, cleaning and scrubbing, which was the lot of student nurses of her day.

Unlike many blacks of her day, Mary Mahoney decided not to go into domestic work, but enrolled in a nursing school founded by another medical pioneer, Maria Elizabeth Zakrzewska.

In 1879, out of a class of 40 students, only she, at age 34, and two other white students, graduated. With her graduation, Mahoney changed the face of nursing. Black students were accepted to the school as long as they met the requirements. Also, as a professionally trained nurse, she was noted for her expert care of the sick.

Mahoney recognized the need for nurses to work together to improve the status of blacks in the profession. She became an inspiration to The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and helped make it possible for the nurses to be received at the White House by President Warren G. Harding. Because of her dedication and untiring will to inspire future generations, Mary Eliza Mahoney has been an inspiration to thousands of men and women of color who are part of the nursing profession.

Source: http://www.bridgew.edu/hoba/mahoney.cfm