This collection includes newspapers covering the time period from 1789 to 1963. Contributors represent most states and some U.S. territories. It is a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This collection contains the electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. Intended for a general audience, books in the series present a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of select countries throughout the world. Nellie Bly’s travels took her 28,000 miles. Her trip included several of the countries presented in this collection.

This collection documents achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes. Photos and data pertaining to the historical buildings of Blackwell’s Island can be found by searching on “Blackwell’s Island” or “Welfare Island.”

Thomas Edison's laboratory was responsible for the invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer). Motion pictures became a successful entertainment industry in less than a decade, with single-viewer Kinetoscopes giving way to films projected for mass audiences. Most early examples were actualities showing famous people, news events, disasters, people at work, new modes of travel and technology, scenic views, expositions, and other leisure activities. Created in 1903, Panorama of Blackwell's Island, N.Y., was photographed from a boat heading south along the eastern shore of Blackwell's Island, known today as Roosevelt Island. Included in the view is the insane asylum where Nellie Bly went undercover.

This collection of World War I clippings covers far beyond the valuable contemporary news reports and contains war-related editorials, features, cartoons, photos, maps, and more. Front pages and full-page features of New York City newspapers are frequently presented. Nellie Bly returned to journalism after the death of her husband as a reporter for the New York Journal. Her reporting from the Austrian front is represented.

The World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection contains nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson from 1894 to 1896. Collected only a few years after Bly’s journey around the world, the photographs offer insight into some of the types of transportation she used on her journey: ship, train, jinrikisha, sampan, horse, and burro.

Much like Nellie Bly, the women correspondents represented in this online exhibit followed various paths to their wartime assignments.

Part of the American Women Series, this essay tells the story of the parade, including the mistreatment of marchers by rowdy crowds and inept police. Nellie Bly rode as one of the heralds in the parade, and bluntly stated in the headline to her article on the march—“Suffragists Are Men's Superiors.” (New York Evening Journal, March 3, 1913, p. 3)

On January 25, 1890, police cleared a path through a cheering crowd for reporter Nellie Bly as she stepped off a train in New York just 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds after setting sail east to prove she could circle the globe in less than 80 days.