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Frances Christian Brand died on [[November 19]], [[1990]] (aged 89) in Charlottesville.  
Frances Christian Brand died on [[November 19]], [[1990]] (aged 89) in Charlottesville.  
==Collection==
==Collection==
Her collection of "Firsts" reflects the influence of the Mexican folk painting she studied<ref>{{cite web|title=Online Exhibit: France Brand Collection Exhibit|url=http://albemarlehistory.org/index.php/exhibit-by-category/C4/|author=|work=|publisher=Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=January 26, 2012}}</ref>. {{deadlink}}
Her collection of "Firsts" reflects the influence of the Mexican folk painting she studied<ref>{{cite web|title=Online Exhibit: France Brand Collection Exhibit|url=http://albemarlehistory.org/index.php/exhibit-by-category/C4/|author=|work=|publisher=Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=January 26, 2012}}</ref>. {{deadlink}}
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===Subjects===
===Subjects===
"Firsts" Portrait subjects and their contributions to the Charlottesville-Albemarle community:
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*[[Alica Kelso| Alice Gertrude Whitten Kelso]] &ndash; Member of [[American Association of University Women]]
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*[[Alice Ivory| Alice Wesley Ivory]] &ndash; first Black member of the Arts Association
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*[[Amy Doggett]] &ndash; First woman to graduate from the Naval ROTC program at [[University of Virginia]]
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*Anna Anderson Manahan
| Ruth Klüger Angress||Jewish, was in concentration camp, came to UVA in Fall 73 because TJ philosophy, resigned 76 over disagreement with pres.
*Anna Lucia Puerta
|-
*[[Anne Mae Bailey]] &ndash; First to introduce French into Charlottesville public schools
| Anne Mae Bailey||introduced French into Charlottesville Public Schools, pres of The Alb Arts Assoc, founded Mini-Park at 250 & Hillcrest
*[[Bessie Guy]] &ndash;  President of Charlottesville Church Women United; gospel singer for the State Department during World War II
|-
*[[Beverly A. Hankins]] &ndash;  First female faculty at UVA McIntire School of Commerce
| Tim T.L.W. "Tillie" Bailey Jr.||first "cotton technologist" for the Foreign Agriculture Service of the Dept of Agric, during WWII was a leading microscopist
*[[Booker Reaves]] &ndash; First African American to receive master's degree from UVA
|-
*[[Brenda Burrough]] &ndash; First African American female page
| Charles L. Barbour||African American Mayor
*Brenda Richmond
|-
*Carolyn “Karen” B. Hartsock
| Arie D. Bestebreurtje||minister at First Presbyterian Church on Park St. (1966-1981), active in Dutch Resistance during WWII
*Catherine “Kay” G. Peaslee
|-
*[[Catherine Burke| Catherine Lynn Burke]] &ndash;  First female Rhodes Scholar at [[University of Virginia]] in [[1976]], the first year that was open to women
| Sarah Patton Boyle||author of The Desegregated Heart sold internationally, first white person on the board of the C'ville Chapter of the NAACP
*Charles “Chuck” Langham
|-
*[[Charles Barbour| Charles L. Barbour]] &ndash; First Black mayor
| Frances Brand||self portrait
*[[Charlotte Humphris| Charlotte Jennings Yancey Humphris]] &ndash; First Queen of the First Annual [[Charlottesville Apple Harvest Festival]], 1950
|-
*Col. Elbert L. Radford
| Gina Alycia Brooks||Miss NAACP USA, article July 8, 1977, father Van B. Brooks Jr.
*[[Comilla Payne]] &ndash; First teacher of arts in local public schools
|-
*Constance Ward
| Drewary John Birchard Brown||One of the founders of Monticello Area Community Action Agency (MACAA) anti-poverty agency
*[[Cornelia Johnson]] &ndash; First African American woman on the City police force, 1976
|-
*[[Cynthia Malloy Gatton]] &ndash; Founded local chapter of Pi Beta Phi
| John Brown Bunn||broadcaster "wanted by local FBI for not having certain certificates" 1974 ran one of the few commercial cable radio stations in U.S.
*David Lee
|-
*[[David Wilson]] &ndash; Founded the School of Psychiatry at University of Virginia, worked for race relations
| Benjamin F. Bunn||Founder of local NAACP, minister Main Street Baptist Church m. Imogene 6/10/1939
*[[Donald W. Jones]] &ndash; African American assistant to President of UVA, [[Frank Hereford]]
|-
*[[Doris Overcash]] &ndash; First female mail carrier of Charlottesville
| Imogene Morgan Bunn||African American nurse to be in charge of city nurses m. Benjamin 6/10/1939
*Dorothy Emerson
|-
*Dr. Adah Anita Lotti
| E. Wells Bunyea||CBS radio announcer with his alter-ego "Aunt Emma"  AM107
*Dr. Ann Fulton Humphreys Dyer
|-
*[[Dr. Dumas Malone]] &ndash; [[Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation]] Biographer-in-Residence; professor emeritus of history at UVA
| Catherine Lynn Burke||woman Rhodes Scholar from UVA 1976 - first year it was open to women, Senior majoring in Govt & Foreign Affairs from McLean
*Dr. Edith K. Mosher
|-
*[[Dr. Frank Finger]] &ndash; UVA Professor of Psychology; wresting coach; runner
| Brenda Burrough||first African American female page
*[[Dr. Leslie E. Rudolf]] &ndash; First doctor to perform kidney transplant in area
|-
*Dr. Lyn Lee
| Gail Burton||area's first African American female mail carrier
*[[Dr. Martha Brown Morrison]] &ndash; First Charlottesville-Albemarle member of the famous 99's, the International Organization of Women Pilots
|-
*[[Dr. Mary Williams Clark]] &ndash; First female orthopedic surgeon at UVA's [[Kluge Childrens Rehabilitation Center]] in [[1981]]
| James Butler||first African American elected to Alb Co Board of Supervisors, first Afric. Amer. chief of an Extension Office (Alb.) in VA, Baker-Butler
*[[Dr. Nathan Johnson]] &ndash; First African American faculty member, University of Virginia School of Education.
|-
*[[Dr. Otis Updike]] &ndash; Professor emeritus of chemical and biochemical engineering at UVA
| Margaret McLeod Cain||tentative id, atty named member of Daily Progress' "Distinguished Dozen" 1/4/2003
*Dr. W. Ralph Singleton
|-
*Dr. Zengxuan Song
| Martha S. Carpenter||woman on the first team of radio astronomers, UVA
*[[Drewary Brown| Drewary John Birchard Brown]] &ndash; One of the founders of [[Monticello Area Community Action Agency]] (MACAA), an anti-poverty agency
|-
*Duanne Carter
| Grace H. Carpenter||first woman elected president of YMCA in 1974, broker
*[[Eliot Candee Clark]] &ndash; Local artist, president of National Watercolor Society of the U.S
|-
*[[Elizabeth “Babs” Conant]] &ndash; An expert on the lungfish
| Duanne Carter||President of Soroptimists International Club, professional women who provide volunteer service to their communities
*Elizabeth Nelson Tompkins
|-
*[[Elizabeth Pigeon]] &ndash; Only woman professor at UVA in the early 1900s; founded Charlottesville chapter of AAUW
| Ruth Harvey Charity||first black on National Democratic Committee, from Danville
*Elizabeth Seabrook
|-
*[[Ellen Nash| Ellen “Enie” Virginia Nash]] &ndash; First woman to practice law on Charlottesville [[Court Square]]; Second woman on the [[Albemarle County Board of Supervisors]]
| Eliot Candee Clark||President of the National Watercolor Society of the U.S.
*Ellen Dale McCallin
|-
*[[Ellie Keith| Ellie Wood Page Keith]] &ndash; First woman to have city street named after her
| Mary Williams Clark||first female orthopedic surgeon at UVA's (Kluge) Children's Rehab. Ctr. in 1981
*[[Eugene Williams]]
|-
*Evelyn Patricia Foote
| Otelia Abbott Coles||mortician
*Fr. William A. Stickle
|-
*[[Frances Brand]]
| Roberts "Rob" Coles Jr.||5th great grandson of Thomas Jefferson, acting, playing T.J. since 1976
*[[Frances Farmer]] &ndash; Head librarian of UVA law school, 1942-1976; started Oral History of UVA law school's second century (1927-2027) in 1979
|-
*[[Frances Ramsey Joseph]] &ndash; Began annual 4th of July festival in [[Scottsville]]
| Elizabeth "Babs" Conant||local expert on lung fish, Ivy Creek?
*[[Francis H. Fife]] &ndash; Mayor, 1972-1974
|-
*[[Gail Jones| Gail Burton Jones]] &ndash; First African American female male carrier in the area
| Nincie Cornelia Darby Currier||1 of.. Women artist in area, involved in forming C-A Arts Assoc
*[[George and Ruth Maverick]] &ndash; Lynch and Maverick originate from their family name
|-
*Gertrude Ballou Dunbar
| Joy Suzanne Dallas Eshelman||1 of.. African Americans to graduate from U.S. Military Academy at West Point, incorrectly labelled Joan Gellis
*Gertrude Mitchell &ndash; First African American member of the local [[AAUW]]
|-
*Gina Alycia Brooks
| Opal D. David||first woman elected to Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
*[[Glenda F. Richardson]] &ndash; First female welder in the area
|-
*[[Grace H. Carpenter]] &ndash; First female president of local YMCA in [[1974]]
| Amy Doggett||graduate from the UVA Naval R.O.T.C.
*[[Grace L. Tinsley]] &ndash; First African American member of Charlottesville Board of Education
|-
*[[Gregory Hayes Swanson]] &ndash; First African American who sued to open UVA to African Americans, 1950
| Mattie Dudley||1982 Medicaid benefits suspended because she transferred a pre-paided funeral plan worth $1200, Gov. Robb waived penalties
*[[Hazel Hopkins Key]]- Assistant librarian in the law school; employed 50 years at UVA
|-
*[[Heinz Kramp]] &ndash; Founder of [[Innisfree Village]], [[1971]]; therapeutic cooperative community for adults with mental challanges; started "The Bridge" in [[1991]]
| Gertrude Ballou Dunbar||served during WWII overseas, genealogy
*Hong Kui Wang
|-
*[[Imogene Bunn| Imogene Morgan Bunn]] &ndash; First African American nurse to be in charge of city nurses
| Ann Fulton Humphreys Dyer||1 of.. Women to graduate from UVA? Medical School, medical missionary
*[[William Harris| William "Bill" MicKinley Harris]] &ndash; Founding dean of UVA [[Afro-American Affairs Office]] to promote the welfare of Black students
|-
*Irena Berry Norvelle McCormick &ndash; Lived to age of 107 in [[Covesville]]
| Mary Ann Wilder Elwood||
*[[Irina McClellan| Irina Igorevna Estakhova McClellan]] &ndash; Married to UVA Russian History Professor, Woodford D. McClellan in 1974 in Moscow; couple reunited 1986
|-
*[[James Butler]] &ndash; First African American elected to the [[Albemarle County Board of Supervisors]]; first African American chief of an Extension Office in Virginia; one of two for whom Baker-Butler Elementary is named
| Dorothy Emerson||volunteer extraordinaire, retired from Church Women United, Meals On Wheels, missionary in India
*James N. Galloway
|-
*[[Jannene Shannon| Jannene L. Shannon]] &ndash; First female judge in the area
| Frances Farmer||Head Librarian of UVA Law School 1942-76, 1979 started Oral History of UVA Law School's Second Century 1927-2027
*Jay Worrall
|-
*[[Jill Rinehart| Jill Tietsort Rinehart]] &ndash; First woman on [[Charlottesville City Council]], 1972-1976
| Francis H. Fife||1 of.. Mayors to become housing advocate for the poor, City Council 1970-78, Mayor 1972-74
*John “Jack” Eacott Manahan
|-
*John and Mary Israel
| Frank Finger||UVA Professor of Psychology, wresting coach, runner (wife- Eleanor "Nell")
*John Brown
|-
*John Christian Lowe
| Nancy (Rudolf) Flint||founder of "First Night," C'ville's New Years Eve celebration, 1982?
*[[John F. Merchant]] &ndash; First African American graduate of UVA law school in [[1958]]
|-
*[[Joseph Vaughan| Joseph Lee Vaughan]]- First UVA Provost
| Evelyn Patricia Foote||Brigadier General in Army
*[[Julia Pace]]- First white woman on the City police force
|-
*Linwood Warwick
| Mary Elizabeth Forbes||she married to 72 year old widower who advertised for second wife
*Lt. Col. Joy Suzanne Dallas Eshelman &ndash; Among the first of the African American females to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
|-
*Margaret Jefferson
| James N. Galloway||environmental science, air quality, funny
*[[Margaret Mcleod Cain]]
|-
*Margaret Wood
| Nina Garfield||first woman president of Temple Beth Israel
*[[Marion Kanour]] &ndash; First woman Army ROTC graduate at the University of Virginia
|-
*Marion Nolan
| Paul Conrad Garrett||attorney, Charlottesville City Clerk of Circuit Court 1981, 1st Af.Amer. C'ville City Atty 1976, 1971 grad of UVA Law School
*[[Martha S. Carpenter]] &ndash; Woman on the first team of radio astronomers at UVA
|-
*[[Mary Ann Wilder Elwood| Mary Anne Elwood]] &ndash; First female chair of the [[Charlottesville Democratic Committee]], 1978-1982; President of [[Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce| Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce]], 1986-1990
| Mary L. Garwood & Rebecca C. Haas||area's first women firefighters
*Mary Elizabeth Forbes
|-
*[[Mary Gore]] &ndash; Gardener at [[St. Paul's Episcopal Church]]
| Paul M. Gaston||author of The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking, UVA professor, civil rights leader
*[[Mary L. Garwood]] and [[Rebecca C. Haas]]- First female firefighters in the area
|-
*[[Mary Updike]] &ndash; Started [[Meals on Wheels]] in area
| Cynthia Gatton||founder of UVA Chapter of Pi Beta Phi in 74 or 75, 77 BS in EDSA, m. Malloy
*[[Miriam Walsh| Miriam Cooper Walsh]] &ndash; First female Hollywood star in the area
|-
*[[Mr. Liu]] &ndash; First UVA graduate student from China
| Vivian V. Gordon||first African American woman on UVA faculty to receive tenure, grant to research interracial relations, divorced from Ronald C. Gordon
*[[Nancy Rudolf Flint| Nancy Flint]] &ndash; Founder of [[First Night]], Charlottesville's New Years Eve celebration
|-
*[[Nancy Kirkpatrick O’Brien| Nancy O'Brian]] &ndash;  First female mayor of Charlottesville
| Ronald C. Gordon||paralyzed, founded organization to invent Assistive Technology for Individuals with disabilities
*Nina Garfield
|-
*[[Nincie Currier| Nincie Cornelia Darby Currier]] &ndash; Founding member of the [[Charlottesville-Albemarle Arts Association]]
| Rae Gore||woman carpenter in area, m. Burnette?
*[[Ora Ann Maupin]] &ndash; Charlottesville City Treasurer
|-
*[[Opal D. David| Opal David]] &ndash; First woman on the [[Albemarle County Board of Supervisors]]
| Mary Gore||gardener at St. Paul's Episcopal Church
*Otelia Abbott Coles
|-
*[[Paul Garrett| ]Paul Conrad Garrett] &ndash;  UVA law grad, 1971; First African American as Charlottesville City Attorney, 1976; Charlottesville City Clerk of Circuit Court, 1981
| William A.Guthrie||
*[[Paul M. Gaston]] &ndash; History professor at the University of Virginia; Author of The New South Creed; Active in local civil rights movement
|-
*Paul Toomey
| Bessie Guy||member of Church Women United, sang for troops oversees, "The Green Pastures" spirituals by Hall Johnson, in film and Europe
*[[Priscilla Little]] &ndash; Founding member of [[FOCUS Women's Resource Center]]
|-
*[[Rea Mary Coates Gore Burnette]] &ndash; First female carpenter in area
| Nancy Hale Bowers||first woman journalist on the New York Times
*[[Ralph L. Sampson Jr.]] &ndash; Basketball player for UVA 1979-1983; at UVA was three-time College Player of the Year; professional basketball player, 1983-1992
|-
*Randolph White
| Beverly A. Hankins||1 of.. Working mother who commuted to DC, Ford Theatre restoration, 76 1st female faculty at UVA McIntyre Sch of Commerce
*[[Rev. Arie D. Bestebreurtje]] &ndash; Minister at [[First Presbyterian Church]] on Part St., active in Dutch resistance during Word War II
|-
*[[Rev. Benjamin F. Bunn]] &ndash; Founder of local NAACP; minister [[Main Street Baptist Church]]
| Sheila Hardy||founder of UVA branch of Delta Epsilon Omega, African Amer fraternity/sorority, 75 BS Nursing, m. Vega
*[[Rev. Sara A. Payne]] &ndash; First female minister of Presbyterian Church in Crozet
|-
*[[Rev. Henry Mitchell]] &ndash; First African American president of the [[Board of Education]]
| William McKinley "Bill" Harris||founding dean of UVA's "Afro-American Affairs Office" to promote the welfare of black students, at UVA Aug 76 - July 82
*Rev. William Spence Smith
|-
*[[Richard Chapin Jones]] &ndash; First state forester for Virginia, appointed [[1915]]
| Carolyn B. "Karen" HOP Hartsock||young girl who saved her brother and sister in house fire on 6/13/82
*[[Roberts “Rob” Coles Jr]] &ndash; Fifth great grandson of Thomas Jefferson, acting Thomas Jefferson since [[1976]]
|-
*Ronald C. Gordon
| Satyendra Singh Huja||in charge of building and planning in 1973 (Dir of Planning & Community Development) 1st major project pedestrian (Downtown) mall
*[[Ruth Klüger|Ruth Klüger Angress]] &ndash; Professor and concentration camp survivor who resigned from faculty of the [[University of Virginia]] in 1976 protest over slow pace of integration {{fact}}
|-
*[[Ruth Harvey Charity]] &ndash; First African American woman on National Democratic Committee; from Danville
| Charlotte Jennings Yancey Humphris||Queen of the 1st Annual C'ville Apple Harvest Festival 10/16-21/1950, 1989-2001on Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
*Sally J. Meade
|-
*[[Sandra Levine]] &ndash; Restored the local American Association of University Women; helped found [[Piedmont Council of Arts]], [[1979]]
| John & Mary Isreal||funded by Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., US-China People's Friendship Association, divorced
*Sandra Sorenson
|-
*[[Sarah Patton Boyle]] &ndash; Author of The Segregated Heart, first white person on the board of the Charlottesville chapter of NAACP
| Alice Wesley Ivory||sculpture, art
*[[Satyendra Huja| Satyendra Singh Huja]] &ndash; Director of Planning and Community Development, [[1973]]; in charge of building and planning first major pedestrian mall (now the Downtown Mall)
|-
*[[Sheila Vega Hardy]] &ndash; Founder of UVA branch of Delta Epsilon Omega
| Margaret Jefferson||
*[[Susan and Sandra Murrey]] &ndash; First girls on a boy's soccer team with the City League in Charlottesville; attended [[Albemarle High School]]
|-
*T. L. W. “Tillie” Bailey Jr
| Nathan Johnson||1st black professor at UVA 1967-79, 6 yrs as Assoc Dir of UVA Desegregation Center
*[[Teresa J. Walker Price]] &ndash; First African American librarian in local school system
|-
*[[Virginia Scott| Virginia Ann Scott]] &ndash; First woman who sued to open UVA to women, [[1969]]
| Cornelia Johnson||1st black police officer 1976, 3rd female officer
*[[Vivian V. Gordon]] &ndash; First African American woman on UVA faculty to receive tenure
|-
*[[Fr. William A. Stickle]] &ndash; First Roman Catholic chaplin to UVA; founded [[St. Thomas Aquinas]], [[1963]]
| Donald W. Jones||African American assistant to President of UVA Frank Hereford
*[[Yvette Parsons]]- Patient advocate, ombudsman, University of Virginia Hospital
|-
*Dr. Zengxuan Song
| Richard Chapin Jones||first state forester for Virginia, appointed 3/1/1915, taught Forestry at UVA until 1928
*And several unknowns <ref name="rainville" />
|-
| Frances Ramsey Joseph||to start July 4th Scottsville Festival
|-
| Marion Kanour||woman graduate from UVA Army R.O.T.C.
|-
| Ellie Wood Page Keith||woman to have city street named after her, horseback riding teacher
|-
| Alice Gertrude Whitten Kelso||member of AAUW
|-
| Hazel Hopkins Key||employed 50 years at UVA, assistant librarian in the law school
|-
| Heinz Kramp||founder of Innisfree Village in 1971, a voluntary community with adults with mental disabilities; 1991 started "The Bridge"
|-
| Suzy M. Thomas  & Nathan Lane||Tom built Frances Brand's galleries, studied architecture
|-
| Charles "Chuck" Langham||founder of SCROOGE - Society to Curtail Ridiculous Outrageous & Ostentatious Gift Exchanges
|-
| Lyn Lee||doctor
|-
| David Lee||
|-
| Sandra Levine||restored the local American Association of University Women; 1979 helped found Piedmont Council of the Arts
|-
| Priscilla Little||founder of FOCUS organization, helping women start a career; elder at Westminster Presbyterian in 1983; singer
|-
| Liu||first (UVA?) graduate student from China
|-
| Adah Anita Lotti||1 of 1st woman MD in area, grad of UVA Medical School 1925, 1st class to include women, AAUW
|-
| John Christian Lowe||international lawyer, cofounder of Camp Faith
|-
| Dumas Lowe||Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Biographer-in-Residence, professor emeritus of history at UVA
|-
| John Eacott "Jack" Manahan||
|-
| Anna Anderson Manahan||claimed to be Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia
|-
| Ora Ann Manahan||C'ville City Treasurer
|-
| George & Ruth Maverick||friends of F. Brand; Ruth 8/11/1893-1/4/1983; "lynch" and "maverick" words originated from their family name; m.7/26/1917 San Ant.TX
|-
| Ellen Dale McCallin ||first seminarian planning to be a priest
|-
| Irina Igorevna Estakhova McCallin ||married UVA Russian Hist. Prof Woodford D. McC. 5/4/1974 in Moscow, reunited 1/30/1986, 1987 Alexandria, "Of Love & Russia"
|-
| Irena Berry Norvelle McCormick||"specialist in living because her life is so rich and also did beautiful quilting" lived to age 107, Covesville
|-
| Sally McCormick||SPCA
|-
| John F. Merchant||first black graduate of UVA law school in 1958, 2004 honored at Conn. Law Day, lives in (Stamford, Stratford, or Southport CT?); golf
|-
| Henry Mitchell||African American president (chairman?) of the Board of Education, priest at Trinity Episcopal
|-
| Gertrude Mitchell||1st black memb local AAUW, 1st black empl of Army Foreign Science & Tech Ctr, 1st black woman civil servant in Reg 3 of HEW
|-
| Beatrice "Bea" Mook||first woman to deliver baby using Lamaze methods, 2007 publicist for The Jefferson Area Board For Aging
|-
| Martha Brown Morrison||1st Char-Alb member of the famous 99's, the Int'l Org of Women Pilots, licensed pilot in 1941, came to C'ville in 1968
|-
| Edith K. Mosher||developed teaching methods; coauthor "ESEA The Office of Education Administers A Law" 1968
|-
| Susan & Sandra Murray||first girls on boy's soccer team with the City League in C'ville, attended AHS
|-
| Ellen Virginia "Enie" Nash||long standing attorney in area, 1 of 1st women to practice law on C'ville Court Square, 2nd woman on Alb Co Board of Supervisors
|-
| Marion Nolan||m. Stanton
|-
| Nancy Kirkpatrick O'Brien||1st woman mayor of C'ville
|-
| Doris Overcash||1st female mail carrier 1973?
|-
| Julia Pace||1st white female police officer
|-
| Yvette Parsons||hospital ombudsman in area
|-
| Camilla or Comilla Payne||1st teacher of Arts in local public schools
|-
| Sara A. Payne||1st woman minister of Presbyterian Church in Crozet
|-
| Catherine G. "Kay" Peaslee||first woman to produce a newspaper (weekly), 1978 founded The Observer
|-
| Elizabeth Pigeon||early 1900's was the only woman professor at UVA, founded Charlottesville Chapter of AAUW
|-
| Anna Lucia Puerta||1st flag woman in area
|-
| Elbert L. Radford||Scottsville
|-
| Booker Reaves||African American to receive master's degree from UVA
|-
| Brenda C. Redmond||1 of 1st women mystery writers in area, wrote Rena under pen name B. Gayle pub. 1977
|-
| Amy Carter Reid||African American woman Baptist minister ordained 1944, president of C'ville Church Women United
|-
| Glenda F. Richardson||1st woman welder in area
|-
| Jill Tietsort Rinehart||first woman member of the Charlottesville City Council 1972-1976
|-
| Leslie E. Rudolf||1st MD to perform kidney transplant in area; Amer Soc. Of Transplant Surgeons 5/22/1978?
|-
| Ralph L. Jr. Sampson||professional basketball player (1983-1992), while at UVA was a three-time College Player of the Year; 1979-83 at UVA
|-
| Virginia Ann Scott||first woman who sued to open UVA to women, 1969-70 (Carolyn can get contact info.)
|-
| Elizabeth TOWE Seabrook||1978 became The Senior Center's exec. Director; 1989 Woman of the Year
|-
| Jannene L. Shannon||area's first woman judge
|-
| W. Ralph Singleton||1st from area to perfect a hybrid corn which then was grown all over the world
|-
| William Spence Smith||Presbyterian minister, community workshops, at Westminster 1969-88
|-
| Zengxuan Song||painting- "TC-1 Cell Line" lab coat, bottle
|-
| William A. Stickle||first Roman Catholic chaplain to UVA 1959-75; founded St. Thomas Aquinas 1963
|-
| Gregory Hayes Swanson||first African American who sued to open UVA to African Americans, applied in 1950 at age 26, lawyer from Danville
|-
| Kathryn C. SORENSON Thornton||astronaut, selected by NASA in May 1984, became astronaut in July 1985, physicist
|-
| Grace L. Tinsley||1st African American member of C'ville Board of Education
|-
| Elizabeth Nelson Tompkins||1st woman graduate of UVA School of Law 1923, 23-25 law office of Judge Duke, 1925 on in Richmond
|-
| Paul Toomey||champion ice skater from area, field research in India, later in Boston
|-
| Mary  Updike||started meals on Wheels in area
|-
| Otis Updike||Professor Emeritus of chemical and biochemical engineering at UVA, worked with NASA, 41 BS CHE
|-
| Joseph Lee Vaughan||1st UVA Provost
|-
| Teresa J. Walker Price||1st African American librarian in local school system
|-
| Miriam Cooper Walsh||1st woman Hollywood movie star in area
|-
| Hong Kui Wang||1st scholar from mainland China to come to UVA, computer expert 1980's, holding "Edward A. Parish Jr. Elec ENGR, Computers"
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| Constance Chandler Ward||1st woman from St. Paul Church to become a priest Feb. 1978
|-
| Linwood Hughes Warwick||Geologist for Virginia for 50 years, 1908-1959, U.S. Geological Survey
|-
| Randolph White||Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune
|-
| Eugene Williams||buys and renovates houses to rent or sell, 1954 pres. of local NAACP
|-
| David Wilson||to have psychiatric hosp named after him, founded UVA's Psychiatric department, 1938 estab UVA's 1st psychiatric ward
|-
| Margaret Wood||first woman hired by UVA to teach stress training, Soroptimist Int'l
|-
| Jay Worrall||Founder of Offender Aid & Restoration June 1970, Colonel in Army, Quaker (MACH Vol. 40), founder of & 1st exec dir of MACAA
|-
| ||1st mainland Chinese woman to work at a local job, given Apple computer when returned to China, pharmacologist?
|}


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Frances “The Purple Lady” Brand. Photo credit: Charlottesville Woman

Frances Brand (1901-1990) was a local artist whose most-celebrated work was a collection of portraits called "Firsts" - images of local people who were pioneers in a field or endeavor. [1]

Born in 1901 in New York, Frances Brand married a military man with whom she had two children. At the age of 41, she joined the army where she spent a 10 year career as a liaison (particularly in Germany working with children affected by the Nazi regime), ultimately becoming an army major. [1] Brand once said she was asked out by Al Capone and was once arrested for civil disobedience at a protest organized by Martin Luther King Jr. [2]

Upon her retirement, she studied art at Mexico City College (now the University of Mexico) for five years. [3][dead link]

Frances Christian Brand died on November 19, 1990 (aged 89) in Charlottesville.

Collection

Her collection of "Firsts" reflects the influence of the Mexican folk painting she studied[4].[dead link]

The "Firsts" were painted between 1974-78 and include 157 portraits (although some may be part of her "modern madonna" series). The subjects are "people that Mrs. Brand had met and befriended in Charlottesville or Albemarle County, people whose strength of character she admired." [5] Many of her portraits were of notable women in the community or of civil rights leaders. Subjects include Nancy O'Brien, the first woman mayor of Charlottesville, Cornelia Johnson, the city's first female African-American police officer, and Jill Rinehart, the first woman elected to city council. [2]

The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society owns the collection. [6][dead link]

A museum had been open at the site of her home at 111 Washington Avenue in the Jefferson Park Avenue neighborhood. The house was painted purple to honor Brand's penchant to dress in purple. [2] However, her granddaughter [citation needed] sold the house in February 2012. [7]

Subjects

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Ruth Klüger Angress Jewish, was in concentration camp, came to UVA in Fall 73 because TJ philosophy, resigned 76 over disagreement with pres.
Anne Mae Bailey introduced French into Charlottesville Public Schools, pres of The Alb Arts Assoc, founded Mini-Park at 250 & Hillcrest
Tim T.L.W. "Tillie" Bailey Jr. first "cotton technologist" for the Foreign Agriculture Service of the Dept of Agric, during WWII was a leading microscopist
Charles L. Barbour African American Mayor
Arie D. Bestebreurtje minister at First Presbyterian Church on Park St. (1966-1981), active in Dutch Resistance during WWII
Sarah Patton Boyle author of The Desegregated Heart sold internationally, first white person on the board of the C'ville Chapter of the NAACP
Frances Brand self portrait
Gina Alycia Brooks Miss NAACP USA, article July 8, 1977, father Van B. Brooks Jr.
Drewary John Birchard Brown One of the founders of Monticello Area Community Action Agency (MACAA) anti-poverty agency
John Brown Bunn broadcaster "wanted by local FBI for not having certain certificates" 1974 ran one of the few commercial cable radio stations in U.S.
Benjamin F. Bunn Founder of local NAACP, minister Main Street Baptist Church m. Imogene 6/10/1939
Imogene Morgan Bunn African American nurse to be in charge of city nurses m. Benjamin 6/10/1939
E. Wells Bunyea CBS radio announcer with his alter-ego "Aunt Emma" AM107
Catherine Lynn Burke woman Rhodes Scholar from UVA 1976 - first year it was open to women, Senior majoring in Govt & Foreign Affairs from McLean
Brenda Burrough first African American female page
Gail Burton area's first African American female mail carrier
James Butler first African American elected to Alb Co Board of Supervisors, first Afric. Amer. chief of an Extension Office (Alb.) in VA, Baker-Butler
Margaret McLeod Cain tentative id, atty named member of Daily Progress' "Distinguished Dozen" 1/4/2003
Martha S. Carpenter woman on the first team of radio astronomers, UVA
Grace H. Carpenter first woman elected president of YMCA in 1974, broker
Duanne Carter President of Soroptimists International Club, professional women who provide volunteer service to their communities
Ruth Harvey Charity first black on National Democratic Committee, from Danville
Eliot Candee Clark President of the National Watercolor Society of the U.S.
Mary Williams Clark first female orthopedic surgeon at UVA's (Kluge) Children's Rehab. Ctr. in 1981
Otelia Abbott Coles mortician
Roberts "Rob" Coles Jr. 5th great grandson of Thomas Jefferson, acting, playing T.J. since 1976
Elizabeth "Babs" Conant local expert on lung fish, Ivy Creek?
Nincie Cornelia Darby Currier 1 of.. Women artist in area, involved in forming C-A Arts Assoc
Joy Suzanne Dallas Eshelman 1 of.. African Americans to graduate from U.S. Military Academy at West Point, incorrectly labelled Joan Gellis
Opal D. David first woman elected to Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
Amy Doggett graduate from the UVA Naval R.O.T.C.
Mattie Dudley 1982 Medicaid benefits suspended because she transferred a pre-paided funeral plan worth $1200, Gov. Robb waived penalties
Gertrude Ballou Dunbar served during WWII overseas, genealogy
Ann Fulton Humphreys Dyer 1 of.. Women to graduate from UVA? Medical School, medical missionary
Mary Ann Wilder Elwood
Dorothy Emerson volunteer extraordinaire, retired from Church Women United, Meals On Wheels, missionary in India
Frances Farmer Head Librarian of UVA Law School 1942-76, 1979 started Oral History of UVA Law School's Second Century 1927-2027
Francis H. Fife 1 of.. Mayors to become housing advocate for the poor, City Council 1970-78, Mayor 1972-74
Frank Finger UVA Professor of Psychology, wresting coach, runner (wife- Eleanor "Nell")
Nancy (Rudolf) Flint founder of "First Night," C'ville's New Years Eve celebration, 1982?
Evelyn Patricia Foote Brigadier General in Army
Mary Elizabeth Forbes she married to 72 year old widower who advertised for second wife
James N. Galloway environmental science, air quality, funny
Nina Garfield first woman president of Temple Beth Israel
Paul Conrad Garrett attorney, Charlottesville City Clerk of Circuit Court 1981, 1st Af.Amer. C'ville City Atty 1976, 1971 grad of UVA Law School
Mary L. Garwood & Rebecca C. Haas area's first women firefighters
Paul M. Gaston author of The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking, UVA professor, civil rights leader
Cynthia Gatton founder of UVA Chapter of Pi Beta Phi in 74 or 75, 77 BS in EDSA, m. Malloy
Vivian V. Gordon first African American woman on UVA faculty to receive tenure, grant to research interracial relations, divorced from Ronald C. Gordon
Ronald C. Gordon paralyzed, founded organization to invent Assistive Technology for Individuals with disabilities
Rae Gore woman carpenter in area, m. Burnette?
Mary Gore gardener at St. Paul's Episcopal Church
William A.Guthrie
Bessie Guy member of Church Women United, sang for troops oversees, "The Green Pastures" spirituals by Hall Johnson, in film and Europe
Nancy Hale Bowers first woman journalist on the New York Times
Beverly A. Hankins 1 of.. Working mother who commuted to DC, Ford Theatre restoration, 76 1st female faculty at UVA McIntyre Sch of Commerce
Sheila Hardy founder of UVA branch of Delta Epsilon Omega, African Amer fraternity/sorority, 75 BS Nursing, m. Vega
William McKinley "Bill" Harris founding dean of UVA's "Afro-American Affairs Office" to promote the welfare of black students, at UVA Aug 76 - July 82
Carolyn B. "Karen" HOP Hartsock young girl who saved her brother and sister in house fire on 6/13/82
Satyendra Singh Huja in charge of building and planning in 1973 (Dir of Planning & Community Development) 1st major project pedestrian (Downtown) mall
Charlotte Jennings Yancey Humphris Queen of the 1st Annual C'ville Apple Harvest Festival 10/16-21/1950, 1989-2001on Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
John & Mary Isreal funded by Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., US-China People's Friendship Association, divorced
Alice Wesley Ivory sculpture, art
Margaret Jefferson
Nathan Johnson 1st black professor at UVA 1967-79, 6 yrs as Assoc Dir of UVA Desegregation Center
Cornelia Johnson 1st black police officer 1976, 3rd female officer
Donald W. Jones African American assistant to President of UVA Frank Hereford
Richard Chapin Jones first state forester for Virginia, appointed 3/1/1915, taught Forestry at UVA until 1928
Frances Ramsey Joseph to start July 4th Scottsville Festival
Marion Kanour woman graduate from UVA Army R.O.T.C.
Ellie Wood Page Keith woman to have city street named after her, horseback riding teacher
Alice Gertrude Whitten Kelso member of AAUW
Hazel Hopkins Key employed 50 years at UVA, assistant librarian in the law school
Heinz Kramp founder of Innisfree Village in 1971, a voluntary community with adults with mental disabilities; 1991 started "The Bridge"
Suzy M. Thomas & Nathan Lane Tom built Frances Brand's galleries, studied architecture
Charles "Chuck" Langham founder of SCROOGE - Society to Curtail Ridiculous Outrageous & Ostentatious Gift Exchanges
Lyn Lee doctor
David Lee
Sandra Levine restored the local American Association of University Women; 1979 helped found Piedmont Council of the Arts
Priscilla Little founder of FOCUS organization, helping women start a career; elder at Westminster Presbyterian in 1983; singer
Liu first (UVA?) graduate student from China
Adah Anita Lotti 1 of 1st woman MD in area, grad of UVA Medical School 1925, 1st class to include women, AAUW
John Christian Lowe international lawyer, cofounder of Camp Faith
Dumas Lowe Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Biographer-in-Residence, professor emeritus of history at UVA
John Eacott "Jack" Manahan
Anna Anderson Manahan claimed to be Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Ora Ann Manahan C'ville City Treasurer
George & Ruth Maverick friends of F. Brand; Ruth 8/11/1893-1/4/1983; "lynch" and "maverick" words originated from their family name; m.7/26/1917 San Ant.TX
Ellen Dale McCallin first seminarian planning to be a priest
Irina Igorevna Estakhova McCallin married UVA Russian Hist. Prof Woodford D. McC. 5/4/1974 in Moscow, reunited 1/30/1986, 1987 Alexandria, "Of Love & Russia"
Irena Berry Norvelle McCormick "specialist in living because her life is so rich and also did beautiful quilting" lived to age 107, Covesville
Sally McCormick SPCA
John F. Merchant first black graduate of UVA law school in 1958, 2004 honored at Conn. Law Day, lives in (Stamford, Stratford, or Southport CT?); golf
Henry Mitchell African American president (chairman?) of the Board of Education, priest at Trinity Episcopal
Gertrude Mitchell 1st black memb local AAUW, 1st black empl of Army Foreign Science & Tech Ctr, 1st black woman civil servant in Reg 3 of HEW
Beatrice "Bea" Mook first woman to deliver baby using Lamaze methods, 2007 publicist for The Jefferson Area Board For Aging
Martha Brown Morrison 1st Char-Alb member of the famous 99's, the Int'l Org of Women Pilots, licensed pilot in 1941, came to C'ville in 1968
Edith K. Mosher developed teaching methods; coauthor "ESEA The Office of Education Administers A Law" 1968
Susan & Sandra Murray first girls on boy's soccer team with the City League in C'ville, attended AHS
Ellen Virginia "Enie" Nash long standing attorney in area, 1 of 1st women to practice law on C'ville Court Square, 2nd woman on Alb Co Board of Supervisors
Marion Nolan m. Stanton
Nancy Kirkpatrick O'Brien 1st woman mayor of C'ville
Doris Overcash 1st female mail carrier 1973?
Julia Pace 1st white female police officer
Yvette Parsons hospital ombudsman in area
Camilla or Comilla Payne 1st teacher of Arts in local public schools
Sara A. Payne 1st woman minister of Presbyterian Church in Crozet
Catherine G. "Kay" Peaslee first woman to produce a newspaper (weekly), 1978 founded The Observer
Elizabeth Pigeon early 1900's was the only woman professor at UVA, founded Charlottesville Chapter of AAUW
Anna Lucia Puerta 1st flag woman in area
Elbert L. Radford Scottsville
Booker Reaves African American to receive master's degree from UVA
Brenda C. Redmond 1 of 1st women mystery writers in area, wrote Rena under pen name B. Gayle pub. 1977
Amy Carter Reid African American woman Baptist minister ordained 1944, president of C'ville Church Women United
Glenda F. Richardson 1st woman welder in area
Jill Tietsort Rinehart first woman member of the Charlottesville City Council 1972-1976
Leslie E. Rudolf 1st MD to perform kidney transplant in area; Amer Soc. Of Transplant Surgeons 5/22/1978?
Ralph L. Jr. Sampson professional basketball player (1983-1992), while at UVA was a three-time College Player of the Year; 1979-83 at UVA
Virginia Ann Scott first woman who sued to open UVA to women, 1969-70 (Carolyn can get contact info.)
Elizabeth TOWE Seabrook 1978 became The Senior Center's exec. Director; 1989 Woman of the Year
Jannene L. Shannon area's first woman judge
W. Ralph Singleton 1st from area to perfect a hybrid corn which then was grown all over the world
William Spence Smith Presbyterian minister, community workshops, at Westminster 1969-88
Zengxuan Song painting- "TC-1 Cell Line" lab coat, bottle
William A. Stickle first Roman Catholic chaplain to UVA 1959-75; founded St. Thomas Aquinas 1963
Gregory Hayes Swanson first African American who sued to open UVA to African Americans, applied in 1950 at age 26, lawyer from Danville
Kathryn C. SORENSON Thornton astronaut, selected by NASA in May 1984, became astronaut in July 1985, physicist
Grace L. Tinsley 1st African American member of C'ville Board of Education
Elizabeth Nelson Tompkins 1st woman graduate of UVA School of Law 1923, 23-25 law office of Judge Duke, 1925 on in Richmond
Paul Toomey champion ice skater from area, field research in India, later in Boston
Mary Updike started meals on Wheels in area
Otis Updike Professor Emeritus of chemical and biochemical engineering at UVA, worked with NASA, 41 BS CHE
Joseph Lee Vaughan 1st UVA Provost
Teresa J. Walker Price 1st African American librarian in local school system
Miriam Cooper Walsh 1st woman Hollywood movie star in area
Hong Kui Wang 1st scholar from mainland China to come to UVA, computer expert 1980's, holding "Edward A. Parish Jr. Elec ENGR, Computers"
Constance Chandler Ward 1st woman from St. Paul Church to become a priest Feb. 1978
Linwood Hughes Warwick Geologist for Virginia for 50 years, 1908-1959, U.S. Geological Survey
Randolph White Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune
Eugene Williams buys and renovates houses to rent or sell, 1954 pres. of local NAACP
David Wilson to have psychiatric hosp named after him, founded UVA's Psychiatric department, 1938 estab UVA's 1st psychiatric ward
Margaret Wood first woman hired by UVA to teach stress training, Soroptimist Int'l
Jay Worrall Founder of Offender Aid & Restoration June 1970, Colonel in Army, Quaker (MACH Vol. 40), founder of & 1st exec dir of MACAA
1st mainland Chinese woman to work at a local job, given Apple computer when returned to China, pharmacologist?

External Links

Interview with Frances Brand about her interactions with civil rights leaders, provided by the University of Virginia Library[dead link]

  • Photo
  • Frances Brand. Photo credit: Charlottesville Woman

    Frances Brand. Photo credit: Charlottesville Woman

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Web. Remarkable "firsts" in Charlottesville, Lynn Rainville, Blog Post, Loco History, July 27, 2008, retrieved May 4, 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Web. Purple Gain: France Brand's house gets painted, Maxey Hackworth, The Hook, January 30, 2003, retrieved January 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ Web. [ Our Firsts, Great and Small], Aleta Burchyski, Charlottesville Woman, March 1, 2011, retrieved January 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ Web. Online Exhibit: France Brand Collection Exhibit, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, retrieved January 26, 2012.
  5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named painting
  6. ↑ Web. Online Exhibit: France Brand Collection Exhibit, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, January 30, 2003, retrieved January 26, 2012.
  7. ↑ https://gisweb.charlottesville.org/GisViewer/
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