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Professor Virginia G. Drachman:
The Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business Project
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Virginia G. Drachman, Stern Professor
of American History at Tufts University, Discusses the inspiration
for and the scope of the Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American
Business project and exhibition: the rapid growth of the number
of women business owners. In highlighting the broad sweep of the history
of women business owners in America from 1750 to 2000, the Enterprising
Women project takes a biographical approach, featuring approximately
forty women from different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
The exhibition highlights businesses ranging from iron production
to dress pattern design and distribution, from pyrotechnics to cosmetics,
and focuses on business women such as Eliza Pinckney, who developed
indigo into a major cash crop in colonial South Carolina; Madam C.J.
Walker, a beauty entrepreneur; Katherine Goddard, the printer of the
original signed Declaration of Independence; and Martha Coston, the
inventor of the pyrotechnic night signal, which gave naval superiority
to the North in the Civil War. |
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