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Hermine Dudley

Hermine Dudley

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Hermine Dudley (née Jahns; born 1890) was an American woman who, in 1909 at age 19, accompanied Alice Huyler Ramsey when she became the first woman to drive across the United States.[1][2][3] She later married Pendleton Dudley and was the mother of the choreographer Jane Dudley.[4]

Publicity photography of automobilist Alice Huyler Ramsey with Margate Atwood, Nettie Powell and Hermine Jahns prior to their historic drive across America in summer 1909.

The 1995 juvenile historical fiction book Coast to Coast with Alice is told in her voice.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Macy, Sue (2017). Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century. National Geographic. p. 44. ISBN 978-1426326974.
  2. [2]
    Thompson, Carolyn (October 23, 2009). "Women take a seat in Transportation Hall of Fame". San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  3. [3]
    Ruben, Marina (June 4, 2009). "Alice Ramsey's Historic Cross-Country Drive". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  4. [4]
    Decennial Record of the Class of 1903. New York: Columbia University. 1914. p. 57.
  5. [5]
    "Coast to coast with Alice / by Patricia Rusch Hyatt". kenne.edu. Keene Public Library. Retrieved March 25, 2017.

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