Peninsula Portraits was a series of articles featuring prominent women of the community that ran in the Daily Press newspaper from 1956-1958 .  The following women were featured (maiden names are included when known):

Mrs. A.A. Applewhite 
Mrs. Andrew J. Bachman (Edna Rau)
Mrs. Frank G. Berryman (Ola Channell)
Mrs. William E. Blewett (Eleanor Wendell Johnson)
Dr. Chester D. Bradley 
Mrs. H. LeRoss Browne (Betty Rose Knapp)
Mrs. W. P. Chilton (Elizabeth Newcomer)
Mrs. George Preston Coleman (Mary Haldane Begg)
Miss Frances Cox
Mrs. Leander L. Doan (Margretta)
Mrs. Homer L. Ferguson (Elise Anderson Skinner)
Mrs. Eugene P. Fitzhugh (Emma Padgett)
Mrs. C. S. Hardaway (Helen Shawen)
Miss Catherine Harrison
Mrs. Charles Henkel (Douglas Humphries)
Mrs. J. W. Hillyer (Esther Moger)
Mrs. Paul Hogg  (Dorothy  Williams)
Mrs. Allan Randolph Hoffman (Rose Harman)
Mrs. Lorah Brewer Hull
Mrs. Lewis T. Jester (Annie Lash)
Mrs. Malcolm D. Jones (Betty Jeffers)
Misses Elizabeth, Ella and Sue Jordan
Mrs. Upshur Joyner (Kitty Wingfield O'Brien)
Mrs. Harry A. Keitz (Bessie Channell)
Mrs. William L. Kennedy (Lela Maude Swift)
Mrs. Edwin C.  Kilgore (Ann Hitch)
Miss Hattie Kirsner
Mrs. Lummis Abram Knapp (Louise Brannon)
Mrs. Jerome Knowles
Mrs. Frank M. Kraler (Eva Maria)
Mrs. Nathan J. Levy (Sara Omansky)
Mrs. Parry Lewis (Isabelle Dean)
Mrs. Allison Martin (Elizabeth Wilson)
Mrs. Armistead D. Mead (Mary Bruce Poarch)
Mrs. C. E. Minnigerode (Idalia Bland)
Mrs. Sledd Mitchell (Anne McCarthy)
Mrs. R O. Nelson (Frances Hawkins)
Mrs. Roland Olson (Elizabeth Aery)
Mrs. Ralph Osborne (Kathleen Collins)
Mrs. A Woodfin Patrick, Jr. (Ida Ross Eanes)
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Phillips (Lucille)
Mrs. Rodney F. Pierce (Emily De Ford)
Mrs. J. W. Robinson  (Clara Piggott)
Mrs. Harold Ruggles (Ruth Thomes)
Mrs. T. Ryland Sanford (Janet Hutchison)
Miss Margaret Sinclair
Mrs. Robert B. Smith (Margaret Coleman)
Mrs. Walter Post Smith (Emma McVicar)
Mrs. A. F. Southworth (Christine Mawyer)
Mrs. Harold Proctor Sparks (Lena Ellis Peak)
Mrs. A. E. S. Stephens  (Anna Spratley Delk)
Mrs. Ben Sternberg (Elsie Wolf)
Mrs. Leslie Swingle (nee Knottingham)
Mrs. Frederick N. Thompson (Frances Edwards)
Mrs. H. Clark Thompson (Margaret Mulholland)
Mrs. Archie Tolmie (Dorothy Fairlie)
Mrs. G. Guy Via, Jr. (Rosellen Hoffman)
Mrs. A. E. von Doenhoff  (Ruth Abbott)
Mrs. William T. Watkins (Mabel Elizabeth Jackson)
Mrs. Edward T. Williams (Mary Moore Angell)
Miss Elsie Wilson
Mrs. Herbert A. Wilson, Jr. (Genevieve Ingraham)
Mrs. J. B. Woodward