Lillian Vernon's Catalog Empire Got Its Start at a Kitchen Table | At the Smithsonian
A keen sense of what shoppers wanted made her eponymous company the first woman-owned business on the American Stock Exchange
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A keen sense of what shoppers wanted made her eponymous company the first woman-owned business on the American Stock Exchange
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is hosting a ceremony today to receive artifacts from the family of business entrepreneur and philanthropist Lillian Vernon (1927-2015).
Women’s business history is an integral part of the museum’s “American Enterprise” exhibition. This donation ceremony will mark the accession of objects from the career of entrepreneur Lillian Vernon (1927–2015) to the national collection. Vernon, born Lilli Menasche in Leipzig, Germany, began a simple venture selling monogrammed accessories for teenagers, eventually growing