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Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination

Biographical Information Dolls Henry, Beulah (1887-1973) Inventions and Patents New York City Toys Typewriters and Typewriting Umbrellas

Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination

She was so prolific — reimagining things as varied as toys, typewriters, umbrellas and ice-cream makers — that she earned the nickname Lady Edison.

By Seth Mydans

Overlooked No More: Lena Richard, Who Brought Creole Cooking to the Masses

Biographical Information Black People Cooking and Cookbooks Deaths (Obituaries) Lena Richard New Orleans (La) Small Business

Overlooked No More: Lena Richard, Who Brought Creole Cooking to the Masses

She hosted a cooking show years before Julia Child was on the air, tantalizing viewers with okra gumbo, shrimp bisque and other Southern specialties.

By Arlene Schulman

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth

Biographical Information Books and Literature Deaths (Obituaries) Donaldson, Stephen R Fonstad, Karen Wynn (1945-2005) Geography Maps The Hobbit (Book) The Lord of the Rings (Book) Tolkien, J R R

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth

She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

By Brian Kevin

Overlooked No More: Fidelia Bridges, Artist Who Captured the Natural World

Art Biographical Information Birds Bridges, Fidelia (1834-1923) Butterflies and Moths Deaths (Obituaries) Homer, Winslow James, Henry Labor and Jobs Richards, William Trost Women and Girls

Overlooked No More: Fidelia Bridges, Artist Who Captured the Natural World

A prolific artist, she was known for her graceful watercolors of birds, plants and butterflies, and was considered as the equal of Winslow Homer in her day.

By Bonnie Eissner