ATCQ Cover Story, Fall 2000: “Globe-Trotting Nellie Bly on the Fly – Around the world in under 80 days.”
COVER CARDS: Globe-trotting Nellie Bly married into the Iron Clad kitchen via an aging industrialist. See below for more!
Nellie Bly Globe-Trotting Journalist Trade Cards
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Nellie Bly became involved in managing Iron Clad shortly after the two COVER CARDS
were issued by the Brooklyn firm for the
Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893. Iron Clad owner Robert Seaman was 73 years old when he married Bly; she was 31.
This article includes the entire text from the original ATCQ journal. 
The cards from one Nellie Bly series contain rhymes, such as:
This card below from Bly’s “Iron Clad Specialties” company may be available for sale on ebay. Click on images for listings.
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This card may also available from Bly’s “Iron Clad Specialties” company. Click to see if currently available.
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Two more cards from Bly’s “Iron Clad Specialties” company. Click to see if currently for sale on ebay.
Bly was in full charge of the Iron Clad company by 1901, when her portrait created quite a stir at the Pan-American Exposition.
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Her special Iron Clad advertising card was not printed on paper or cardboard… but rather on aluminum! (Might be available.)
RARE 1894 Ironclad Billhead – Click to see if available.
End of article: Nellie Bly Globe-Trotting Journalist Trade Cards – © By Dave Cheadle