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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…