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Enterprising Women will introduce exhibit visitors to the lives of women business owners and managers like:
Mary Katherine Goddard, respected Revolutionary War printer and postmistress who published the first printed copies of the Declaration of Independence.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who first cultivated and developed indigo as a major cash crop in colonial South Carolina.
Victorian entrepreneurs like Rebecca Lukens,
who took over her deceased husband's iron works and became
the only woman iron manufacturer of the era.
Martha Coston, inventor of the Pyrotechnic
Night Signal (night flare), which gave naval superiority to
the North in the Civil War.
Lydia Pinkham, who turned a private herbal
recipe for "female complaints" into a thriving patent medicine
business.
Beauty and fashion pioneers like Madam C. J. Walker,
Elizabeth Arden, and Hattie Carnegie,
each of whom went from rags to riches marketing cosmetics
and clothing to an increasingly diverse consumer.
Olive Ann Beech, co-founder with her husband
of Beech Aircraft, a pioneering airplane manufacturer spanning
the decades from aviation's barnstorming infancy to the aero-space
age.
Polish immigrant Ruth Handler, co-founder
of Mattel Toy Co., who created the Barbie doll and went on
to found Nearly Me to market prostheses to fellow breast-cancer
survivors.
New economy leaders like Meg Whitman, CEO
of the on-line auction company eBay Inc., and the first woman
to head an e-commerce site; Martha Stewart,
America's most trusted guide to living with style and Linda
Alvarado, founder and CEO of a major construction
company.
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