Historic Newspapers: Woman & Journalism

NEW YORK HERALD, Feb. 5, 1870  

* Historic 1st female Wall Street brokerage opens
* Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin sisters
* "The Bewitching Brokers" shatters tradition

The top of the back page has an intriguing report of a very notable--yet widely unknown--Wall Street "first".
Under the column heads: "THE QUEENS OF FINANCE" "The Palace of the Female Sovereigns of Wall Street--Commodore Vanderbilt as Prime Minister--Establishing the Connections--Telegraphy and Woman's…

NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 6, 1870  

* Historic 1st female Wall Street brokerage opens
* Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin sisters
* "The Bewitching Brokers" shatters tradition

The top of the back page has an intriguing report of a very notable--yet widely unknown--Wall Street "first".
Under the column heads: "WALL STREET AROUSED" "The Female Brokers--The First Day's Operations--Manner of Their Reception by the 'Street'--A Word or Two Concerning the Adventurers" is the report of…

NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 14, 1870 

* "Woodhull, Claflin & Co." advertisement
* First Women's Wall Street brokerage

The financial page has an intriguing, somewhat inconspicuous advertisement of a very notable--yet widely unknown--Wall Street "first".
The advertisement is for the very first women's brokerage firm to open on male-dominated Wall Street. It is headed: "Woodhull, Claflin & Co." and notes: "Mrs. V. C. Woodhull, Mrs. T.C. Claflin, Bankers and Brokers. No. 44 Broad St., New…

NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 5, 1872 

* Victoria Woodhull & Teenie Claflin indicted

The front page has: "The Ku Klux" "Greeley's Friends at Work in Kentucky--They Hang a Man, His Wife, and Daughter to the Same Tree".
Page 2 has: "Woodhull & Claflin" "An Indictment Found Against Them--A Writ of Habeas Corpus for Col. Blood--Arrest of Stephen Pearl Andrews".
Sisters Victoria Woodhull & Tennie Claflin were activists in the woman's rights movement, and this case was concerning them: "...sending indecent…

ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE, New York, Jan. 23, 1873  

* Victoria Woodhull
* Tennessee Celeste Claflin
* Indictments for libel 

The very bottom of the front page has a brief yet notable report headed: "Woodhull and Claflin Again Arrested" noting: "...were again arrested yesterday and locked up over night on not giving bail for fresh charges of libel. They were to-day held in $1,000 bail for trial on another charge of libel on Mr. Challis. Colonel Blood was also held in $2,000 bail."
This cased…

NEW YORK TIMES, March 5, 1874 

* Victoria Woodhull
* Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The back page has: "The Woodhull & Claflin Case" "The Challis Libel Suit Commenced--Two Jurors Obtained" takes close to have a column & begins: "The long-ending trial of Victoria C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claflin, and Col. James H. Blood, charged with libeling Luther C. Challis in 'Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly" of the 2nd of November, 1872, was commenced yesterday..." with much more (see).
Complete in 8 pages,…

NEW YORK TIMES, March 5, 1874 

* Victoria Woodhull
* Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The back page has: "The Woodhull & Claflin Case" "The Challis Libel Suit Commenced--Two Jurors Obtained" takes close to have a column & begins: "The long-ending trial of Victoria C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claflin, and Col. James H. Blood, charged with libeling Luther C. Challis in 'Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly" of the 2nd of November, 1872, was commenced yesterday..." with much more.
Complete in 8 pages, lightly…

NEW YORK TIMES, March 12, 1874  Page 2 has a report headed: "The Challis-Woodhull Libel" "Seventh Day of the Trial--Argument for the Defense--Address of Mr. Brooke" which is concerning the libel trial based on an article on her newspaper (see the web for more).
This is the famed Victoria Woodhull, who along with Tennie Claflin published the controversial newspaper "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly".
Eight pages, browned at the margins, loose at the spine with several margin tears. The issue does…

NEW YORK TIMES, March 12, 1874 

* Victoria Woodhull
* Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Page 2 has a report headed: "The Challis-Woodhull Libel" "Seventh Day of the Trial--Argument for the Defense--Address of Mr. Brooke" which is concerning the libel trial based on an article on her newspaper.
This is the famed Victoria Woodhull, who along with Tennie Claflin published the controversial newspaper "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly".
Eight pages, four binding holes near the spine do not affect the…

WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, Chicago & St. Louis, 1879  As noted at the top of the front page: "...devoted to the interests of Woman, to her educational, industrial, legal and political Equality and especially to her right of Suffrage." Editors listed include Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, & Mary A. Livermore. Each issue contains numerous articles related to woman's suffrage.
The issue shown is representative of the look and condition of the one you will receive, but actual dates vary within 1879.
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THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, May 24, 1879 

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage

Uncommon women's suffrage paper produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore.
Among the articles: "Concerning Women" "School Suffrage" "Woman's Rights in Old Times" "The Eight Hour League" "Cambridge Woman Suffrage Association" "Suffrage A Natural Right" and much more.
Eight pages, great condition.

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, June 21, 1879 

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage
* Woman's rights

Uncommon women's suffrage paper produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore.
Among the articles: "Mass. Legislation for Women in 1879" To the Women of Cambridge!" "The Dunkards" "Our Door Sports For Women" "A Story Told by Clara Barton" "Woman's Rights Versus Polygamy" and much more.
Eight pages, great condition.

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, June 28, 1879 

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage

Uncommon women's suffrage paper produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore.
Among the articles: "Miss Goodell in the Supreme Court" "Concerning Women" "Another Anecdote of Lincoln" "Mr. Garrison's Flight For Life" "Smith College Experiment" "Real Facts About the Votes of Women" "Salary of Teachers" and much more.
Eight pages, great condition.

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, July 12, 1879 

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage

Uncommon women's suffrage paper produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore.
Among the articles: "Concerning Women" "Women Voters in Woburn" "Women as Blacksmiths" and much more.
Eight pages, great condition.

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, July 19, 1879 

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage

Uncommon women's suffrage paper produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore.
Among the articles: "Concerning Women" "The Coming Women" "Anti-Slavery Reminiscences" "Women & School Boards" "Letter From California" "A Wife's Rights" and much more.
Eight pages, great condition.

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, Aug. 2, 1879  Uncommon women's suffrage paper produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore.
Among the articles: "Concerning Women" "The Coming Women" "What One Woman Is Doing" "Mrs. Livermore at Weymouth" "What Tax Must Women Pay?" "Women As Notaries" and much more.
Eight pages, great condition.

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, Aug. 23, 1879 

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage

Uncommon women's suffrage paper produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore.
Among the articles: "Concerning Women" "As It Seems to a Woman" "Miss Alcott Before the Registrar" "A Woman's Party" and much more.
Eight pages, great condition.

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, Sept. 27, 1879  

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage

Uncommon women's suffrage paper produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore.
Among the articles: "Concerning Women" "Suffrage In California" "The Influence of Women" "Feminine Door-Keepers at the House of Commons" "What One Woman Has Done, Another Can Do" and much more.
Eight pages, great condition.

background: The Woman’s Journal, founded in Boston by…

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, Dec. 27, 1879 

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage

Uncommon women's suffrage paper produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore.
Among the articles: "Alice Fletcher at the West" "Women Physicians for Insane Asylums" Concerning Women" "Teach Your Boys" "Women as School Officers in Illinois" "Suffrage Meeting in California" "What the Press Says of Women Voting" "Women's Election Reform" and much more.
Eight…

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, Sept. 18, 1880

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage

Rare women's suffrage paper founded in 1870, produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore. Published: "...to the interests of Woman, to her educational, industrial, legal & political Equality, & especially to her right of Suffrage" as noted on the front page.
Of course, the majority of the articles have to do with women's rights.
Eight pages, a few tiny binding holes and…

THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, Washington, D.C., April 26, 1890 

* Turn of the 20th century
* Women's suffrage

Their motto in the masthead: "Equality Before The Law". This was the country's leading women's suffrage publication having begun in Beatrice, Nebraska, before moving to Washington, D.C. Published by Clara Bewick Colby, a women's rights activist & suffragist leader, she was a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War, the first woman to be so recognized.
As would be suspected the…

THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, Washington, D.C., Sept. 22, 1900

* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage

 Their motto in the masthead: "Equality Before The Law". This was the country's leading women's suffrage publication having begun in Beatrice, Nebraska, before moving to Washington, D.C. Published by Clara Bewick Colby, a women's rights activist & suffragist leader, she was a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War, the first woman to be so recognized.
As would be suspected the content…

THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, Washington, D.C., Oct. 20, 1900

* Rare title
* Women's suffrage

Their motto in the masthead: "Equality Before The Law". This was the country's leading women's suffrage publication having begun in Beatrice, Nebraska, before moving to Washington, D.C. Published by Clara Bewick Colby, a women's rights activist & suffragist leader, she was a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War, the first woman to be so recognized.
As would be suspected the content is…

THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, Washington, D.C., Jan. 26, 1901 

* Turn of the 20th century
* Women's suffrage
* Carrie Nation wrecks saloons

Their motto in the masthead: "Equality Before The Law". This was the country's leading women's suffrage publication having begun in Beatrice, Nebraska, before moving to Washington, D.C. Published by Clara Bewick Colby, a women's rights activist & suffragist leader, she was a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War, the first woman to be so…

THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, Washington, D.C., May 25, 1901

* Rare publication - Women's suffrage

Their motto in the masthead: "Equality Before The Law". This was the country's leading women's suffrage publication having begun in Beatrice, Nebraska, before moving to Washington, D.C. Published by Clara Bewick Colby, a women's rights activist & suffragist leader, she was a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War, the first woman to be so recognized.
As would be suspected the content is…

THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, Washington, D.C., June 29, 1901

* Turn of the 20th century
* Women's suffrage

Their motto in the masthead: "Equality Before The Law". This was the country's leading women's suffrage publication having begun in Beatrice, Nebraska, before moving to Washington, D.C. Published by Clara Bewick Colby, a women's rights activist & suffragist leader, she was a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War, the first woman to be so recognized.
As would be suspected the…

THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, Washington, D.C., Oct. 19, 1901  Their motto in the masthead: "Equality Before The Law". This was the country's leading women's suffrage publication having begun in Beatrice, Nebraska, before moving to Washington, D.C. Published by Clara Bewick Colby, a women's rights activist & suffragist leader, she was a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War, the first woman to be so recognized.
As would be suspected the content is primarily focused on women's rights and…