On Sept 21, an editorial in the NY Sun assures letter writer 8-year old Virginia O'Hanlon that there is a Santa Claus.

An American leader of the women's suffrage movement who was the first woman to run for President of the United States in the 1872 election. Together with her sister, Tennessee Claflin, she was the first woman to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. They were among the first women to found a newspaper in the United States, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, which began publication in 1870.

An English woman in her early twenties, with extraordinary bad luck. She was one of the wealthiest women in New York, based on an inheritance from her first husband.

An American businesswoman who was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and the first woman to head one of the NYSE's member firms.

American romantic comedy-drama film starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, and Melanie Griffith. Its plot follows an ambitious secretary from Staten Island who takes over her new boss's role while the boss is laid up with a broken leg.

An American editor, translator, and writer. She was the first editor-in-chief of the women's fashion magazine, Harper's Bazaar.

The statue was meant to advertise a new initiative by State Street, calling for more Wall Street firms to have women in leadership.

An American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish causes. She wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus" in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

An engineer known for the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband Washington Roebling developed caisson disease (a.k.a. decompression disease) and became bedridden. She served as a liaison and supervisor of construction through communicating between her husband and on-site personnel.

A socialite and philanthropist. Married to American founding father Alexander Hamilton, Eliza is recognized as an early American philanthropist for her work with the Orphan Asylum Society.

In the 1970s, Freedman led a fight to legalize artists residences in Soho, and also pushed for the Percent for Art legislation, which requires one percent of all city construction budgets be spent on art.

Charlotte, A Tale of Truth, tells the story of a schoolgirl, Charlotte Temple, who is seduced by a British officer and brought to America, where she is abandoned, pregnant, sick, and in poverty.

An American socialite, she was the eldest daughter of Continental Army General Philip Schuyler, and a sister of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and sister-in-law of Alexander Hamilton.

On Sept 4 1975 Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first American born saint. A convert to Catholicism, she established the first Catholic girls school and the first Sisters of Charity nuns.