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Sally Fox (photographer)

American photographer, art collector, editor

For other uses, see Sally Fox (disambiguation).

Sally Fox

Sally Fox, from the Jewish Women's Archive

Born

Salomea Cherniavsky


December 30, 1929

Hollywood, California

DiedFebruary 25, 2006 (aged 75)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Occupation(s)Photographer, textbook editor, collector of historical illustrations and photographs

Sally Fox (née Cherniavsky; December 30, 1929 – February 25, 2006) was an American photographer, art collector and editor. She worked as a photographer, coordinator and picture editor for Houghton Mifflin and was especially known for her curated collections of historical images of women's lives which she published during the 1980s.[1][2]

Biography

Early life

Cherniavsky was born in 1929 in Hollywood, California, United States.[3] Her parents were Joseph Cherniavsky and Lara (née Lieberman), Jewish musicians who had emigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union during the Russian Civil War.

Sally Fox (inventor)

American inventor

For other uses, see Sally Fox (disambiguation).

Sally Fox

Born1955 (age 69–70)

Palo Alto, California

NationalityAmerican
EducationCalifornia State Polytechnic University
Alma materUniversity of California at Riverside (MBA)
Known forFoxFibre®️

Sally Fox (born 1955) is a cotton breeder who breeds naturally colored varieties of cotton. She is the inventor of Foxfibre®️ and founder of the company Natural Cotton Colors Inc. Fox invented the first species of environmentally friendly colored cotton that could be spun into thread on a machine.[1]

Fox has been called a "cotton pioneer" for her efforts regarding organic, colored cotton and heirloom wheat.[2]

Early life and education

Fox was the sixth of seven children, born in 1955 in Woodside, California to two real estate agents. At the age of seven, her family moved to Menlo Park.[1]

Fox first became interested in cotton fibers at the age of 12. After purchasing her first spindle with babysitti

Sally Fox

Inventor of Foxfibre Colored Cotton

"I never really planned to be an inventor, but my attitude toward life has always been inventive."  –Sally Fox

In the modern world, there is an unfortunate tendency to value profit over intellect. People may know a practice is harmful, but continue to do it anyway because it produces an in-demand product. Fortunately, there are inventors who work persistently to develop more responsible solutions. Sally Fox is one such individual.

Prior to Fox's invention of Foxfibre cotton, naturally colored cotton could only be spun by hand – which was such a long and laborious process that businesses instead chose to take white cotton, bleach it, dye it and spin it on a machine. This produced the colored fabrics people wanted, but also created a lot of pollution through the bleaching and dying processes. Sadly, there weren't really any viable alternatives available – that is, until Sally Fox came along in the late 1980s and revolutionized the industry.

While working as a pollinator for a cotton breeder looking

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