These explorers endured uncertainties and hardships to build museum collections, create research archives, and publish chronicles that continue to inspire, enlighten, and educate. While some commanded expeditions, many of these explorers played integral supporting roles, such as navigating, recording, photographing, illustrating, mapping, and collecting specimens.
Margaret Mee, née Brown (1909-1988), was a British contemporary artist considered to be one of the most remarkable women of
Bertha “Bertie” Parker Cody is widely considered to be the first female Native American archaeologist. Cody, who also went by
“One must wear white in stalking Arctic game,” quips author Courtney Letts de Espil (Mrs. John Borden) in her 1928
"Every collector hopes that he will be able to bring home some species unknown to science, never before described
In 1891, Yvette Borup was born to Mary Brandreth and Col. Henry Borup in Paris, France¹. Though both parents were
In an epic story of love, trials, and vindication at the dawn of the 20th century, the farm-raised daughter of
Matthew Henson A member of the first expedition to reach the North Pole, Matthew Alexander Henson was an experienced member
Alice Eastwood collecting plant specimens in the field, while holding her wooden plant press Childhood/Alice in Wonderland Alice Eastwood was
In 1863 taxidermist Jane Tost (c.1817-1889) was the first woman to be professionally employed by the Australian Museum, and later
![Bertha Parker Pallan [Cody] (1907-1978) is considered one of the first female Native American archaeologists.](https://untoldstories.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bertha-Parker-Pallan-1-e1535561454766-300x246.jpg)
![Margery Carlson (1892-1985) Botany Research Associate shown [outdoors] with some of the packs of [plant] specimens she collected on expedition. © The Field Museum, B80585.](https://untoldstories.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Margery-Carlson-300x217.jpg)
