PC: Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Lillian Vernon, a Holocaust survivor who escaped Germany with her family as a young girl, built a multimillion-dollar business from her kitchen table after starting a handbag venture in 1951. At the time, she was a young married woman looking to earn an extra $50 a week to support her family. Her first product was a handbag manufactured by her father, which she advertised in Seventeen magazine. What began as a small business selling monogrammed accessories to teenagers gradually expanded into a major catalogue company. The Lillian Vernon Corporation later became the first...
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