Founding Women of Albuquerque

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Official documents indicate that in February 1706, as many as thirty-five families participated in the founding of Albuquerque. While many of the names have been lost, within those families were at least twenty women who should rightfully be honored as the founding...

Dulcelina Salce Curtis

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Dulcelina Salce Curtis was a hard-working visionary who spent her time in wise pursuits—teacher, agriculturalist, farmer, orchardist, and conservationist in flood control and surface water protection. Dulcelina, a lifelong resident of Corrales, gave generously of...

Doña Dolores “Lola” Chávez de Armijo

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

In 1912, New Mexico State Librarian, Lola Chávez de Armijo, filed a gender discrimination lawsuit after the Governor sought to replace her by court order—claiming that she, being a woman, was unqualified to hold office under the constitution and laws of New Mexico....

Chief Justice Pamela B. Minzner

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

One of approximately twenty women in the Harvard law class of five hundred, she and her female classmates found their job search after law school challenging. Law firms were recruiting male graduates but ignoring the women. The female students, well versed in their...

Carrie Wooster Tingley

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Carrie Wooster was born in Bowling Green, Ohio, on May 20, 1877, to a wealthy family. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, which had stricken her father, she traveled to the southwest in 1911 with her mother. Intending to reach Arizona, mother and daughter left the train in...

Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

For all of New Mexico’s history under Spanish and Mexican administrations, in some respects, women had more legal rights then their English, North American counterparts. Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares is a pointed example. After surviving the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, she...