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  Frances Work - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Frances Ellen Work (27 October 1857-26 January 1947) was an American heiress and a great-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Born in New York City, she was a daughter of Franklin H. Work, a well-known stockbroker, and his wife, Ellen Wood.
Three of Frances Work's great-great-grandchildren are the American actor Oliver Platt, Prince Harry of Wales and Prince William of Wales.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frances_Work   (289 words)

  
 The Frances Willard House - Evanston, IL
In 1879 the women of the WCTU elected Frances as the second president of the organization and the house began to function as an informal national headquarters and as a boarding house for WCTU women.
With the move of WCTU national headquarters to Chicago in 1886, and Mary Bannister Willard's departure from the "annex," Frances described the house as a "branch of the National WCTU office in the city" and the use of the house as a dormitory increased.
Frances left "Rest Cottage" to the WCTU in her will, with a life tenancy for Anna Gordon, Mary Bannister Willard and her two daughters.
www.franceswillardhouse.org /franceslife/ifahousecouldspeak.php   (478 words)

  
 Celebrating 125 Years Person of the Week: Frances Simpson Stevens
Frances Simpson Stevens was the only American artist involved with the Italian Futurist movement, which flourished prior to World War I. She was born in Chicago, IL.
Frances's work was well known in the New York avant-garde art circles and she became part of the group of artists that exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery.
Frances, in her forward to the catalogue, explained that this period of enormous technological change demanded a new pictorial idiom.
mail.danahall.org /~library/125yrs/stevens.html   (805 words)

  
 Frances
Frances said she thought the work was good therapy for her, even though she thought she had beaten cancer.
Frances lost a sister to cancer at the age of 33, "so that's very important to me." she said.
Frances diid a lot of baby-sitting when she was younger and continues to work now for her three grandchildren; Amy, Matthew and Nicholas.
members.tripod.com /~Foo99/Frances.htm   (1617 words)

  
 FRANCES DENNEY - Our History
Frances Cunningham, a pretty Irish Girl form Drogheda, Ireland broke with the stereotypes of the late 1800's and enrolled in Trinity College in Dublin.
Frances Denney's eldest son entered the family business in 1928 and was followed by his brother and sister.
At about this time, Frances began to diminish her role in the business and ultimately retired in 1938 at the age of 74.
www.francesdenney.com /history.htm   (360 words)

  
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Frances: Did you work in any of the modern mines Alfred: Well Yes in Utah, I worked in Calmers Utah, I ran a machine there, cutting coal and was shooting it down and put- ting it in conveyors.
Frances: yes she was a good person, In fact I visited her Just a couple weeks ago, we went to Trinidad and I visited with her, her eyesight is very bad.
Frances: Yea thats who it is. Alfred: Her sisters the one who came up here and asked me. when the others mover if I would rent it to her, But I thought she was married, so come to find out she had no husband.
www.spld.org /docs/text/Owens_A.txt   (6949 words)

  
 Biddington's Contemporary Art Gallery
Frances JETTER Sculpture "X" All of Frances Jetter's sculptures and prints are infused with a very human energy--even a piece as abstract as "X".
Frances JETTER Sculpture "Egg Torso" Frances Jetter's sculpture "Egg Torso" is a cast bronze work that rests on a body skewered by a two-headed rod.
Frances JETTER Sculpture "Bed" In Frances Jetter's mostly recently cast bronze sculpture "Bed" she uses bronze is a truly surprising way.
www.biddingtons.com /os/category/FIXcur167_33.shtml   (1188 words)

  
 Social Security Online
Frances Perkins was born in Massachusetts, of an upper middle-class family.
While there, in connection with her course work, Frances Perkins visited many local factories and came to develop a permanent interest in, and compassion for, the problems of working people and the working poor.
Frances Perkins was named Chairman of the Committee on Economic Security, established by FDR in 1934 to investigate social insurance and report on its findings in 6 months.
www.ssa.gov /history/fpbiossa.html   (2660 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Philip Alexander Work, lawyer and Confederate soldier, was born in Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, on February 17, 1832, the son of John and Frances (Alexander) Work.
Work resumed his law practice in Woodville, but in October 1865 he moved to New Orleans, where he practiced law and was in the steamboat business.
Work died on March 17, 1911, and was buried in the old Hardin Cemetery near Kountze.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/fwo25.html   (692 words)

  
 MHC People
Frances' life changed forever as the result of an economic history course that she took while she was an undergraduate student at Mount Holyoke College.
Frances' class toured factories in the nearby city of Holyoke and Frances was appalled by the working conditions she saw there.
By the time Frances was appointed Secretary of Labor by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, she brought with her three decades of commitment to social reform, and the experience to back up that commitment.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~lbenoit/frances.html   (541 words)

  
 Frances Williamson
By learning about the trying life and dedicated work of Frances Williamson, students of history will develop a deeper understanding of the harsh realities of living in Nevada in the late 1800's and be inspired by the commitment and zeal of this early Nevada activist.
Frances gave birth to six children, was both teacher and principal of the school in Austin, and was active in the community.
Her husband's suicide proved to be the impetus that drove Frances Williamson to become one of the early leaders of the suffrage movement in Nevada.
www.unr.edu /wrc/nwhp/biograph/willmson.htm   (1614 words)

  
 Catholic News Agency
Frances gave up all her wealth to the sick and poor and began to go door to door raising money to aid the sick and poor.
As Frances became deeper involved in charitable work, she began to realize the great need for it in the world and began to seek permission from the pope to form a charitable society of women to do this work.
Frances died in 1440 and is the patron of widows and motorists.
www.catholicnewsagency.com /saint.php?n=415   (317 words)

  
 Music 829F: History of Music Psychology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
While still a graduate student, Francès took part in the Resistance and was arrested by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz.
He was instrumental in the establishment of research laboratories in the various departments of the new university and served as Associate Dean for Research and as a member of the Scientific Council of the university.
Francès remained active in research himself, founding the Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale et Différentielle at Nanterre, which he directs and which functions both as a research institute and as a graduate training facility.
www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu /Music829F/Biographies/Frances.html   (356 words)

  
 Frances Perkins (1880 - 1965)
Frances Perkins was secretary of labor for the 12 years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the first woman to hold a Cabinet post.
For the next two years, she served as secretary of the New York Consumers' League; working closely with Florence Kelley, she successfully lobbied the state legislature for a bill limiting the workweek for women and children to 54 hours.
Frances Perkins had large ambitions—not for herself, but for the world in which she lived.
www.aflcio.org /aboutus/history/history/perkins.cfm   (1192 words)

  
 Special tribute to Frances Clark
Frances Clark, whose name is synonymous with piano instruction in musical circles, died Friday (April 17) at the Medical Center at Princeton at the age of 93.
Frances Clark took me apart, but, before it was over, she put me back together again-just as we had taken that piece apart and put it back together.
Frances was beginning her second year as chair of the piano department at Westminster Choir College, and I was new on the faculty.
www.keyboardcompanion.com /ClarkArticle/Clark.html   (1783 words)

  
 Roman_Frances
Roman Frances was born in 1950 in the town of Alcoy, in eastern Spain.
Frances began painting under the influence of Gaspar Frances who became not only his teacher but a trusted friend as well.
In 1965, at the age of fifteen, Frances exhibited his first works at the Otoño Salon in Alcoy.
www.shawgallery.com /Roman_Frances   (154 words)

  
 Frances Turner - The Future   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Frances has left a wonderful legacy of her life, a treasure-trove of extraordinary work.
Frances' work is simply too good, and too important, to be allowed to disappear from public view.
Our next gaol is to stage a Retrospective of Frances' work which we had hoped would open in the UK in Spring 2006.
www.francesturner.co.uk /future.html   (427 words)

  
 Frances Griss
She worked on newspapers around the country and a news reporter and feature writer before becoming freelance in 1997.
Frances has a lifelong interest in the environment and is also interested in writing about the law, agriculture, business and family matters.
Frances' work has appeared in many publications such as The Northern Echo, Yorkshire Life, Durham Town and Country, The Dalesman, Cumbria, and Livewire.
www.inscribemedia.co.uk /Frances_Griss.htm   (120 words)

  
 MC 671Inventory to the Papers of Frances R. Grant Fernanda PerroneApril 2000Special Collections and University ...
Frances Ruth Grant (1896-1993), pioneer in U.S.-Latin American relations, was born in Abiquiu, a remote pueblo in the foothills of the Valle Grande mountains in what is today New Mexico on November 18, 1896.
Frances Grant held numerous responsibilities at the Roerich institutions, including arranging exhibitions, lectures, musical programs, purchases of art work, overseeing publications of work by Roerich and his followers, and administering the classes offered by the Master Institute.
Frances Grant was an active participant in these events, meeting with officials in Washington, D.C., and corresponding with leaders in Latin America to promote the Pact.
www2.scc.rutgers.edu /ead/manuscripts/grantb.html   (8209 words)

  
 Islesford.com / Little Cranberry Island / Islesford / Maine / USA / Photographs
Gretchen and her twin sister Frances work after school at the market.
Frances had opened up and made the popular breakfast sandwiches before going to school.
Frances and Gretchen took turns going on the delivery runs with Aaron at the wheel of the pickup.
www.islesford.com /idcgour.html   (1080 words)

  
 LUM, Frances M.
Frances was born in San Francisco on May 21, 1928, and raised in Oakland.
Frances then embarked on a 42-year journey around the world as a librarian for the U.S. Armed Forces, starting first in what was then called French Morocco.
Frances is survived by her brother, Philip A. (Betty) Lum; her sister, Victoria A. (Ben) Chuck; and her brother, John B. (Lorraine) Lum.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/24/MNLUMFRANC8.DTL   (333 words)

  
 Frances Shand Kydd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frances Ruth Shand Kydd (20 January 1936–3 June 2004) was the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Her father was Edmund Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, a friend of King George VI and the elder son of the American heiress Frances Work and her first husband, the 3rd Baron Fermoy.
Frances Shand Kydd blamed the pressure of media attention for the breakdown of the marriage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frances_Shand_Kydd   (836 words)

  
 Frances Borden at The Slade Centre
Frances Borden, who has twice been a prizewinner in the BP National Portrait Awards, and Syd Symons, Head of Creative Arts at Gillingham School came together for the first exhibition of 2001 at The Slade Centre.
Frances described herself as being in a period of transition.
For more information on the work of Frances Borden and Syd Symons, please contact Anne Hitchcock at The Slade Centre on 01747 821480 or email her at info@sladecentre.com.
www.webcom.com /~tli/sladecentre/past/borden.htm   (332 words)

  
 Harvard University Art Museums - Press Releases, 2003
Gregory worked creatively in a highly detailed, illusionist style and became widely admired for his self-portraits, which serve as a personal and psychological record of his life.
Her most remarkable works are the series of powerful floral paintings she made in the 1980s, which document the artist's self-evaluation through her subjects.
The exhibition coincides with work on the first volume of a three-volume scholarly catalogue of Harvard's American art collection, including paintings, watercolors, pastels, and stained glass, to be published in 2006.
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu /press/released2003/lifeAsArt.html   (1319 words)

  
 Roman Frances, One of Spains finest artists, his original Oils are available at Kavanaugh Art Gallery
Jose Miguel Roman Frances was born on January 2, 1950 in Alcoy, Alicante (Spain).
Frances' work is characterized by its superb draftsmanship and the feeling of light that he manages to reflect in everything that inspires him.
His paintings are employed lavishly, with dense buildups in the floral groupings and the landscapes surrounding the female figures which are the core and focus from which all else radiates.
www.kavanaughgallery.com /Roman_Frances.html   (316 words)

  
 Women's History Documentary - You May Call Her Madam Secretary - A Women's History Documentation on Frances Perkins - ...
This is the story of a woman whose anguish over the misery of workers in the emerging industrial world of her youth, led her to give up the comforts of home and family, turn from teaching to settlement house work, ultimately becoming one of the outstanding social reformers in the twentieth century.
It is a film not only about an individual but about her contemporaries, about how the movement for social justice took hold of and fired the imagination of Frances Perkins and the men and women around her.
Frances Perkins was a superb storyteller with a remarkable memory.In You May Call Her Madam Secretary, Broadway and film actress Frances Sternhagen presents Perkins' character on camera using the words from her Oral History, on record at Columbia University, and from lectures, letters and writings.
www.vineyardvideo.org /francesperkins.shtml   (460 words)

  
 Fiction: Frances Burney
A useful list of all of Burney's published work as well as a short list of biographical and critical studies of Burney's life and writings.
Frances Burney (1752-1840) was born in King's Lynn, England.
Other events of her extraordinary life include surviving a radical mastectomy (without anesthesia) in 1811 and searching the battlefields of France in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon in search of her husband, Alexandre d'Arblay, with whom she returned to England.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/burney.htm   (303 words)

  
 Mount Holyoke College :: Who are FPs?
Frances Perkins students have interrupted their education from one to thirty-seven years.
Frances Perkins students have worked in a wide variety of occupations prior to returning to college.
Frances Perkins graduates have held elected positions as members of city councils, school committees and library trustees.
www.mtholyoke.edu /fp/5788.shtml   (411 words)

  
 Catboat - Frances
A big catboat ­one a leading marine photographer termed flawless from every angle ­Frances will be queen of the small boats and the artistic heirlooms of the land and sea in her own protected shed to be build on the grounds of the Historical Society on West Bay Road.
He's a cousin of Bill Crosby who built Hornor's Frances and a member of the board of directors for the Osterville Historical Society, where he's arranging for the construction of a shed to house Frances.
Malcolm Crosby; his daughter Betsy Crosby, who also works at the Yacht yard; and cousin David Crosby have restored and are repainting Frances for her retirement.
www.osterville.org /Frances.htm   (731 words)

  
 The Woman Behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Beautifully illustrated with forty examples of her work, this first full-length biography explores the surprising range of Johnston's talent, as well as her high-stepping, controversial character.
Johnston produced a good deal of the usual society portraiture of the time--including a nude photograph of a debutante that prompted the girl's outraged father to file a lawsuit--but she was also an important photodocumentarian.
Through Johnston's work we can see Admiral Dewey on the deck of the USS Olympia, the Roosevelt children playing with their pet pony at the White House, and the gardens of Edith Wharton's famous villa near Paris.
www.upress.virginia.edu /books/berch.html   (589 words)

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