great women in tempe's history
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Enjoy historic photos of Tempe's great women from as far back as the late 1800s. The Tempe History Museum offers an exhibit about them at 809 E. Southern Avenue, Tempe www.tempe.gov/museumTRANSCRIPT
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Great Women in Tempe History –
a photo retrospective
Women in the laboratory in Old Main at the Territorial Normal School, circa 1898
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Easy Riders.
Tempe High School women on a Harley, circa 1924
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Estelle Hackett at the switchboard in the Laird and Dines building, circa 1912
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Lucille Pyle, wife of former Governor Howard Pyle.
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Girls Basketball Team
Tempe High School 1911
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Some of our former City of Tempe Councilmembers: Pat Hatton,
Barb Carter, Dottie Cooper-Nelson, Pam Goronkin, Bev Hermon, Carol Estes and Linda Spears
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Current Tempe City Council members: Shana Ellis, Robin Arredondo-Savage and Vice Mayor
Onnie Shekerjian
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1940: Women in a parade truck.
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Tempe’s first female police officers – they wore high heels and skirts
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Mrs. Clarence deWitt, Mrs. William Evans, Mrs. Cliff Campbell with Pen Johnson at the Centennial Ladies Day breakfast - 1971
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A.H. Williams, school teacher, in a buggy, circa 1900
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Estelle Hackett at an ostrich farm, circa 1909
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Normal School Women’s Basketball Team, circa 1910
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Students at the Tempe Normal School (now ASU)
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Guess Birchett, seated near her garden pond, circa 1940
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Swimmers Lucile Pyle, circa 1940 and Geneva Adams and friend, circa 1930
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Three members of the Tempe Women’s Club, April 5, 1967
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Faces that made a difference: Estelle
Hackett, 1908; Honor Anderson Mouer, 1940; Flora Thew, 1960; Una
Belle Decker, 1910
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Mrs. Kathryn Gammage at
home
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Girls sewing class, Rural School, 1920
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Rural School teacher G. Goodwin on a bicycle, circa 1904
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Alice Walker, Tempe’s first female police dispatcher
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More Tempe women who shaped the community and the future. From left: Josephine Barrett, 1910; Sarah Hayden, 1899; Mrs. Ellis, 1890; unknown woman with a lunch box; Ida Frankenberg, 1900;
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Visit the Tempe History Museum to see an exhibit regarding the accomplishments of Tempe’s women leaders and watch a
video about them at www.youtube.com/tempe11video .