The Women Who Made Early Disneyland

In our multi-purpose room, authors Kelsey Knox and Cindy Mediavilla will discuss their book that details the amazing women behind much of the success of the "happiest place on earth".

Seeking to reclaim women’s place in the early history of Disneyland, The Women Who Made Early Disneyland highlights the female Disney employees and contract workers who helped make the park one of the most popular U.S. destinations during its first ten years. Some, like artist Mary Blair, Imagineers Harriet Burns and Alice Davis, “Slue Foot Sue” Betty Taylor, and Disneyland’s first “ambassador,” Julie Reihm, eventually became Disney “legends.” -- from the publisher

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