Contents:
Tsuru Aoki, first Asian star
Theda Bara, first vamp
Clara Bow, first sex symbol
Marie Eline, first child star
Myrtle Gonzalez, first Hispanic star
Elsie Janis, first person to visit the troops
Evelyn Preer, first African American star
Lilian St. Cyr/Red Wing, first Native American star
Gloria Swanson, first fashion Icon
Anna May Wong, first Chinese American star
Alice Guy Blaché first filmmaker/producer
Zora Neale Hurston, first African American filmmaker
Beatriz Michelina, first Hispanic filmmaker
Mary Pickford, first major studio founder/actress/producer
Marion Wong, first Chinese American filmmaker
Mabel Normand, first comedy director
Lois Weber, first director/producer
Gene Gauntier, first writer
Nellie Bly Baker, first projectionist
Katherine Russell Bleecker, first documentarian
Helen Gibson, first stuntperson
Winifred Laurance, first assistant director
Viola Lawrence, first editor
Nell Shipman, first animal trainer
Julia Heron, first set decorator
Elsa Lopez, first art director
Clare West, first costume designer
Margaret Whistler, first property master
Lillian Rosine, first makeup artist
Hattie Wilson Tabourne - first hairdresser
Edith Lang, first composer/accompanist
Helene Smith Dayton, first stop motion animator
Bessie Mae Kelley, first animator
M. J. Winkler, first animation distributor
Iris Barry, first film archivist
Elizabeth McGaffey, first reference librarian
Delight Evans, first fan magazine editor
Marion Jochimsen, first key art creator
Beulah Livingstone, first publicist
Dorothy Hinton Maehl, first stills photographer
Gertrude Price, first film critic
Fanchon Royer, first trade magazine editor
Agnes Egan Cobb, first distribution sales executive
Lillian Greenberger, first business manager
Kora Newell, first teacher
Peggy Coleman, first nurse
Edna Williams, first international distribution sales executive
