DOROTHY
Dignam

(1879-1964)

Early Advertising Publicist & Copywriter

Dorothy Dignam: Advertising trailblazer and frequent publicist sidekick of Frances Gerety (also featured). Dorothy notoriously kept a list of questions male co-workers expected her to know because she was a woman: “Could a winter hat have a bird’s nest on it? Is Macy’s singular or plural? What do you give a girl graduating from a convent?"

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