Louise E. Jefferson, Artist Publisher Photographer Mapmaker
(photo taken 1994, courtesy of Yale University )
First African American to hold a director's position in the publishing industry.
Source: Citylab website "Hidden Women Mapmakers of the 20th Century" :
"..She learned calligraphy and drawing from her father, a calligrapher at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She followed in his footsteps toward a career in commercial illustration, taking lessons at Howard University in the 1930s and later at Hunter College in New York. She became one of the great pictorial mapmakers of the early 20th century, and broke major ground as a woman of color in the field.
