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Mildred Martin Allen and the Hill District’s Satellites Softball Team
Daughter Beatrice (Allen) Harper donated her mother’s collection of softball and volleyball artifacts, including a striking 1970 “Satelities” uniform displayed in the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum. Photo by Liz Simpson.…
Helen MacCloskey, Pioneer Aviatrix
The following article was written by former Detre Library & Archives Archivist Theresa Rea and originally appeared in the Winter 2014-15 edition of Western Pennsylvania History magazine. The popularity of…
Women’s History Month: Political Leaders
March is the perfect time to tour the History Center and focus on the contributions that women from this region have made to history. To celebrate Women’s History Month, here…
Bertha Lamme, Engineer
Women’s History Month: Bertha Lamme Trailblazer with a Slide Rule Bertha Lamme, at work at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1895. Image courtesy of Dorothy Boyer. As recently as 1980,…