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This newspaper articles highlights certain developments for women's rights, including their ability to serve as county superintendents for school boards. The paper states that 13 Illinois women serve in their county school board and Myra Bradwell…

This page from the Commercial Agency Register in Chicago, Illinois from 1878 shows the Chicago Legal News as a commercial agency with Myra Bradwell listed as president. At a time when a woman’s property rights were barely existent, to have the…

This is a "how to" monograph written in 1893 for “women of all conditions and ages, who want to make money, but do not know how.” During this time when women began to enter new spaces of the workforce once reversed for men, it would make sense to…

This is a scanned copy of the cover for the first volume of the Chicago Legal News, donated to the Library of Congress by Susan B. Anthony in 1903. Myra Bradwell started the newspaper in 1868 under her own name, an accomplishment only possible…

The Quincy Daily Whig’s coverage of the seventh convention of the Illinois Press Association and covers the different events that occurred. In one section, the paper mentions that Myra Bradwell read “a wonderful little poem on the woman question.”…

Transcription: "The first legal paper edited by a woman – Myra Bradwell – This file is from 1868 & 1869 – It was Mrs. Bradwell whose right to be admitted to the Bar of Illinois was carried up to the United States Supreme Court. Senator Matthew…

When the World’s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893, a World’s Congress auxiliary was formed to manage the exposition. Many committees and subcommittees were formed to overview all potential gatherings within the city. This is a call…

*Bottom of Column 6 * In this edition of the New National Era, weekly newspaper owned by and published for African Americans, the newspaper mentions the success of Myra Bradwell's newspaper. The articles sights the success of the Chicago Legal News…