Cool Chicks from History

ilovecharts:

Florence: Mother of Nursing - Mother of  Infographics?

Florence Nightingale was not only a pioneer in the world of nursing - she was also a statistician. This polar area diagram of causes of death in the Crimean War is a form of pie chart that she created. It’s informative and combines graphic and text to tell a powerful story about the decline in deaths from infectious diseases during the war.

(Source: publichealthrn)

From left: Australia’s Shirley Strickland (Bronze), Great Britain’s Maureen Gardner (Silver), and the Netherland’s Fanny Blankers-Koen (Gold).

London Olympics, 1948

life:

Not originally published in LIFE. American diver Zoe Ann Olsen prepares for a springboard dive. She won silver in London in 1948.

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Queenie Newell, 1908 gold medalist in archery.  Fifty three years old at the time, Queenie is the oldest woman to ever win a gold medal.

Seventeen year old Ruth Hood was one of 200 Canadian students chosen to attend the coronation of George VI by the Overseas Education League.

wiscohisto:

Cross-stitch sampler by Anne Thomas, Wales, 1864.

This needlework sampler, which includes two verses in Welsh and one in English, was stitched by Anne Thomas of Wales. Anne’s daughters Mary and Elizabeth came to Wisconsin in the 1890s, joining other relatives who had previously settled in the Waukesha area. The first Welsh immigrants to Wisconsin arrived in 1840. 

via: Waukesha County Museum by way of Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database

read more: Sadie Rowlands Price, “The Welsh of Waukesha County,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 26:3 (1943)

womenatwar:

A WAAF tractor driver with a train of full bomb trolleys, RAF Mildenhall 1942

May Sutton was the first American* (male or female) to win the singles title at Wimbledon.  Her sisters Violet, Florence and Ethel were also well known competitive tennis players.

May retired from tennis in her mid-20s to raise a family, but returned to the court in 1921 at age 35 and became the fourth ranked player in the US.  In 1928, May teamed up with her daughter Dorothy Cheney to become the only mother/daughter pair seeded at the US Open.  

*May was born in England, but immigrated to California at age 6.

Nurses are seen clearing debris from one of the wards in St. Peter’s Hospital, Stepney, East London, on April 19, 1941. Four hospitals were among the buildings hit by German bombs during a full scale attack on the British capital. (AP Photo)

The artist Ethel Gabain, newly appointed by the Ministry of Information to make historical war pictures, at work among bombed ruins in the East End of London on November 28, 1940.

vicfangirlguide:

A map of Europe drawn and painted by Queen Victoria when she was 11 years old.

(via victorianfanguide)

life:

Not published in LIFE: Queen Elizabeth II in Ethiopia, 1965.

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jfklibrary:

As the Queen prepares to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee this weekend, here’s a 1961 photo of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip with JFK and Mrs. Kennedy before the Queen’s dinner honoring the Kennedys at Buckingham Palace.

Please credit JFK Library/Boston.