Controversy

Carrie Lippincott claimed in her 1899 catalog that a number of men had assumed women’s names in order to sell seeds; she published her portrait to prove her gender.  (Possibly Jessie R. Prior was the prime target of this, as the business was registered under her husband’s name for the first five years.)  A few years later Emma White had her portrait published as well, but Jessie never took up the gauntlet.

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Controversy