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/museum

1. Great Women in Tempe History –
a photo retrospective
Women in the laboratory in Old Main
at the Territorial Normal School, circa 1898

2. Easy Riders.
Tempe High School
women on a Harley,
circa 1924

3. Estelle
Hackett at
the
switchboard
in the Laird
and Dines
building,
circa 1912

4. Lucille Pyle, wife of
former Governor Howard
Pyle.

5. Girls Basketball
Team
Tempe High
School 1911

6. Some of our former City of Tempe Councilmembers: Pat
Hatton,
Barb Carter, Dottie Cooper-Nelson, Pam Goronkin,
Bev Hermon, Carol Estes and Linda Spears

7. Current Tempe City Council members: Shana Ellis,
Robin Arredondo-Savage and Vice Mayor Onnie
Shekerjian

8. 1940:
Wome
n in a
parade
truck.

9. Tempe’s first
female police
officers – they
wore high heels
and skirts

10. Mrs. Clarence
deWitt, Mrs.
William Evans,
Mrs. Cliff
Campbell with
Pen Johnson at
the Centennial
Ladies Day
breakfast -
1971

11. A.H.
Williams,
school
teacher, in
a buggy,
circa 1900

12. Estelle Hackett at an ostrich farm, circa 1909

13. Normal School Women’s Basketball Team, circa 1910

14. Students at the Tempe Normal School (now ASU)

15. Guess Birchett, seated near her garden pond, circa
1940

16. Swimmers Lucile Pyle,
circa 1940 and Geneva
Adams and friend, circa
1930

17. Three members of the Tempe Women’s Club, April 5,
1967

18. Faces that made a
difference: Estelle Hackett,
1908; Honor Anderson
Mouer, 1940; Flora Thew,
1960; Una Belle Decker,
1910

20. Mrs. Kathryn
Gammage at
home

21. Girls sewing class, Rural School, 1920

22. Rural
School
teacher G.
Goodwin
on a
bicycle,
circa 1904

23. Alice Walker, Tempe’s first female police

24. 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;

25. 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 .