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| | Advertising, Marketing, and Commercial Imagery collections |
 | | Virginia Wagoner Booth, known as Jimmie Booth, studied printing and engineering at Syracuse University. |
 | | In 1998, Jimmie Booth, Dorothy Shaver, and other creators of The American Look were saluted in the exhibition, "Designing Women: American Style 1940-1960" at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. |
 | | In addition to her design work, Booth was a violinist with the Hartford Symphony in the 1940s, and later became the chef at the Brooklyn, Connecticut, Golden Lamb Buttery, which she and her husband, Bob, own and operate. |
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