User:Aabn2424/Jessie Swirles Bladworth

The May Manton Pattern Company was started in 1892 by Horace Dumars and George H. Bladworth. The company created ten-cent paper dress patterns, cheaper than the average twenty cents before. They offered the patterns to newspaper publishers with fashion articles and pictures; publishers could sell the patterns at a small profit.

Jesse Bladworth designed the patterns under the pseudonym "May Manton."