Wilhelmina Seegmiller

Wilhelmina Seegmiller (1866-1913) was an American artist whose Applied Arts Drawing Books were used ubiquitously throughout American schools. She worked as an art teacher in the public schools in Indianapolis beginning in 1895.
In 1909, she convinced the legislature of Indianapolis to pass a law allowing school boards to split $0.5 of each taxable $100 with the associations for art education in cities that had art associations. She also changed art education in Indianapolis by encouraging schools to use professional artists to teach art.
She wrote the children's books Rhymes for Little Readers, Other Rhymes for Little Readers, and Sing a Song of Season, the last of which she also illustrated.