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The True Story of the Dallas Secretary Who Invented Liquid Paper
The founder of the office staple started out as a single mother trying to make her life at work a little easier.
By Peter Simek
Published in
FrontBurner
April 27, 2021
12:13 pm
Spoiler alert: the contents of this blog post will answer one of the trivia questions in the May edition of
D Magazine. It has to do with Liquid Paper and the Dallas secretary who invented it. Her name was Bette Nesmith later Bette Nesmith Graham a single mom who, in 1956, tried to find a simple way to make her life at work easier.
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The secretary who turned Liquid Paper into a multimillion-dollar business
Bette Nesmith Graham invented one of the most popular office supplies of the 20th century. Today, she’s largely been forgotten.
By:
Zachary Crockett
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@zzcrockett
April 23, 2021
On a warm Texas night in 1956, Bette Nesmith later known as Bette Nesmith Graham sat in a garage surrounded by buckets of white tempera paint, empty nail polish bottles, and handmade labels.
She didn’t know it then, but she was on the brink of something magical.
The product she would eventually create
Liquid Paper, a white correction fluid used to conceal handwritten or printed typos would become one of the world’s most popular and enduring office supplies.