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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…

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 death notice of Myra Bradwell from The Daily Inter Ocean serves as an demonstration of how not only her activism, but also her life on the whole, was perceived by the outside world. This eulogy captures all professional aspects and some personal…

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…