Photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals was one of the first women photojournalists. Beals took hundreds of photographs at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair) in St. Louis.

Most of the photographs from the Beals collection can be viewed online in VIA.

Link to digitized photos from folders 18-31a: "Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, 1904: ceremonies, buildings, pavilions, ethnic groups, miscellaneous exteriors" from the Jessie Tarbox Beals Photograph Collection.

After serving as a missionary in China for 20 years, Mae Chapin went to the Philippines, where she was principal of the Union High School in Manila and taught religious education.

Ida Fuller Ford joined her husband on his second tour of duty in the Philippines in 1906. They lived in Malabang on the island of Mindanao for two years. The collection includes drafts and an unpublished memoir of her time in the Philippines.

Euphemia ("Pattie") Paxton Hewitt taught in the Philippines for three years, beginning in August 1901.

In 1937, Hooper joined her husband in Jolo, Philippines, where he was a teacher. The couple moved to Manila in 1939, and during World War II, they were interned in the Santo Tomas prison camp.

Howlett taught etiquette classes in the Philippines and Hawaii. She also wrote an etiquette column for the Manila Daily Bulletin. The collection includes her notes on etiquette, copies of her newspaper column from the 1920s, and photographs of classes.

Wolfson headed a Red Cross ambulance unit in France during World War I. She lived with her brother and parents in Manila, P.I., until, during and after World War II, and was a Republican National Committeewoman for the Philippine Islands, 1921-1947.