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Harriet Burns, first female Imagineer, dies at 79


July 28, 2008 Harriet Burns, the first woman hired by Walt Disney Imagineering in a creative capacity, died Friday at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles of complications from heart surgery. For the first major expansion of the Anaheim park in 1959, she created models of the Matterhorn as a one-one hundredth scale replica of the Swiss mountain and painted underwater figures and set pieces for the Submarine Voyage. On occasion, when Walt Disney would introduce new theme park attractions to TV audiences, Burns would appear on segments of "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color."

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