1740) Hilda Petrie

Hilda Mary Isabel, Lady Petrie (née Urlin; 1871–1957). Irish-born British Egyptologist and wife of Sir Flinders Petrie, the father of scientific archaeology. Having studied geology, she was hired by Flinders Petrie at age 25 as an artist, which led to their marriage and a working partnership that endured for their lifetimes.

In her teens, she sat for the painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Henry Holiday (1839 - 1927) Aspasia on the Pnyx, and he was the one who would later introduce Hilda to Flinders Petrie, who needed someone to make drawings for a book he was planning to write about the history of costume.

 

- "Hilda was described as an attractive redhead...”  https://storiesfromthemuseumfloor.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/hilda-and-flinders-a-reluctant-romance/

 

- " Attractive, with modish red hair, Hilda sat for the Pre-Raphaelite artist Henry Holiday..." https://the-past.com/comment/hilda-petrie-1871-1956/ 

Aspasia on the Pnyx. Hilda Petrie is the woman on the right

Hilda and Flinders Petrie

 

1739) Ruth Marie Terry

Ruth Marie Terry (1936 – 1974, also known as Lady of the Dunes). American formerly unidentified murder victim, the oldest case of unidentified murder victim of Massachusetts.

She was found on July 26, 1974, in the Race Point Dunes near to Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States. Her body was exhumed in 1980, 2000, and 2013 in efforts to identify her. In 2022, the FBI field office in Boston announced that Terry had been officially identified and her husband Guy Muldavin, who died in 2002, was officially named as her killer in 2023.

 

- "She had long auburn or red hair pulled back into a ponytail by a gold-flecked elastic band." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ruth_Marie_Terry 

 

- " Now the auburn-haired woman whose story has been a mystery for so long has a name: Ruth Marie Terry." https://provincetownindependent.org/tag/lady-in-the-dunes/