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Female Entrepreneurs

Anneke Fritz (1818-1872) and Mathilde Franziska (1817-1884). Papers, 1791-1884

Created By: Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

Anneke, Mathilde Franziska (née Giesler)

Mathilde Franziska Anneke was an entrepreneur, lecturer, educator, journalist, writer, and a newspaper editor. She was well educated and a free and independent thinker, interested in political and social reform on behalf of women in both the German lands and the United States.

Anneke, Mathilde Franziska’s first newspaper, the <em>Frauen-Zeitung</em>

The second page of Mathilde Franziska Anneke’s first newspaper, the Frauen-Zeitung, which she published on September 27, 1848, in Cologne.

Auf denn, Ihr Schwester! Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844-1914

Created By: Ortlepp, Anke Publisher: Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004

Boyle, Gertrude

In 1970, when Gert Boyle became the president of Columbia Sportswear, the company was a small, struggling organization with low profit margins. Five years later, Columbia went international and was expanding at an impressive rate.

Carus, Marianne

Marianne Carus is the founder of Cricket magazine for children and young adults. Building on her success with Cricket, Carus managed to create a new niche market for children’s literary magazines in the United States, eventually launching four more magazines aimed at different age groups.

Carus, Mary Hegeler

Born on the grounds of her father’s zinc factory, Mary Hegeler Carus took the unusual step for a woman of her time period in pursuing a college career and going on to advanced study in engineering. She then took on the responsibility of running her family’s business, the Matthiessen and Hegeler Zinc Company, resisting the efforts of her siblings to sell the company to outsiders.

Charlotte Cramer Sachs collection, AR 11603

Created By: Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History

Charlotte Cramer Sachs papers, 1905-2002

Created By: Archives Center

Constitution of the National Woman Suffrage Association

A copy of the 1873 constitution of the National Woman Suffrage Association with listed Mathilde Franziska Anneke as one of…

Cover page of Mathilde Anneke’s <em>Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung</em>

Cover page of Mathilde Anneke’s Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung, published on October 15, 1852, in New York.

Cramer Sachs, Charlotte

Charlotte Cramer Sachs was an artist, inventor, entrepreneur, food and wine enthusiast, and an early developer of prepared cake and muffin mixes. Her company Cramer Products Company pioneered the manufacture and distribution of many types of prepared food mixes under the brand Joy Prepared Mixes.

Cramer Sachs, Charlotte receiving Free Enterprise, American Family Heritage Award, ca. 1952

Charlotte Cramer Sachs receiving Free Enterprise, American Family Heritage Award, ca. 1952

DeHaan, Christel

Although she grew up struggling in post World War II Germany, in 1996 Christel DeHaan became one of the wealthiest women in the United States when, at the age of fifty-four, she sold her company Resort Condominiums International (RCI) for $825 million.

Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business

Created By: Drachman, Virginia D Publisher: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002

Free Enterprise, American Family Heritage Award

Free Enterprise, American Family Heritage Award, ca. 1952.

Heileman, Johanna portrait, n.d.

Portrait of Johanna Heileman, n.d.

Helen and Kurt Wolff Papers

Created By: Helen and Kurt Wolff Publisher: Yale Collection of German Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Helen Wolff in the 1950s

Helen Wolff, 1994

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