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Archive for March 2013

March 4, 2013

 

vintage photo of Camilla Williams in opera

The Desegregating Diva

Camilla Williams was the first black woman singer to appear with a major national opera company, nearly ten years before Marion Anderson's debut at the Met .

March 11, 2013

 

black and white portrait of T.C. and Selma Steele in their garden

Steele’s Magnolia

In the spring of 1908, Selma Steele began planting gardens—a passion that would become her own artistic contribution to the House of the Singing Winds.

March 18, 2013

 

Judge Loretta Rush is introduce as the new Supreme Court judge in 2012 in Indianapolis.

A Woman’s Judgment

Although Ohio elected a woman to its supreme court in 1922, it was not until 1995 that Indiana would see a woman sitting on its highest state court.

March 25, 2013

 

Engraved portraits of John Cleve Symmes and Daughter Anna Symmes Harrison

Indiana’s First First Lady

Anna Symmes Harrison had not yet made it to Washington when her husband gave his inaugural address. As she prepared to leave, she received news of his death.

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