Learn more about Nellie Bly and SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND TOURS in partnership with women’s history with these resources guided museum learning, investigative Self-Guided Tours are for teachers who and an activity. Each class is two to questioning, and hands-on discovery. facilitate their own museum experience. three hours in length, plus a one half Blos, Joan W. Nellie Bly’s Monkey: His Remarkable Story Ehrlich, Elizabeth. Nellie Bly. New York, Chelsea House Discussions of daily life and major We encourage teachers to tour our hour for lunch, and available Monday in his own Words. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1996. Publishers, 1989. events like the British, French, and building in preparation for their visit. through Friday, July through February. A picture book that tells Nellie Bly’s journey through the A biography of Nellie Bly’s life with excellent images from the Indian War, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Worksheets or scavenger hunts designed Reserve your program at least two eyes of her monkey, McGinty. There is also a short biography different countries that she visited on her around-the-world Many exciting school programs are the Civil War, Gilded Age, and World by the teacher are highly recommended. months in advance in order to schedule at the end. Most suitable for elementary students. trip. Most suitable for middle school students. available at the History Center. Four Wars connect students to the everyday Self-guided tours are for a maximum of with a curator or archivist. pittsburghCLO.org pghhistory.org types of student tours are described and extraordinary lives of local people 200 students, pre-kindergarten students Davidson, Sue. Getting the Real Story. Seattle: Seal Press, 1992. Kroeger, Brooke. Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, below. Please visit the History Center throughout American history. through 12th grade. They are one to two Early Childhood Education A biography of two early female reporters: Nellie Bly and Feminist. New York: Times Books, 1994. website at www.heinzhistorycenter.org hours in length, plus a one half hour for Programs, age 2 through 2nd Grade, Ida B. Wells. Though the biographies are based on fact, the The most comprehensive biography of Nellie Bly’s – click on “Education” – to learn Tours generally include a visit to four lunch, available Monday through Friday, include a story, short tour through the author uses scenes and conversations that are imaginary. life. Most suitable for high school students. more about each tour. For each tour exhibits (30 minutes per exhibit) that July through February and on Mondays museum and a hands-on craft or Most suitable for middle school students. theme, you will find a tour overview share a common theme. Teachers only during March through June. These activity that makes learning fun as well Rittenhouse, Mignon. The Amazing Nellie Bly. sheet with a description, objectives, should choose one of the following tours feature a museum overview, as meeting early learning standards. New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1956. essential questions and a sample of themes to focus their tour through introduction by a museum educator, Group size is a maximum of 20 students. One of the first Nellie Bly biographies for young readers. what you might see on the tour. Western Pennsylvania history. and include a map of the History Center Tour availability is Monday through Most suitable for middle and high school students. and exhibit directory. Friday, year-round, 9:00am – noon. Guided Tours for pre-kindergarten Themes: Websites! students through 12th grade are one Immigration and Migration Experience Classes provide an Teachers may obtain a Free Preview to two hours in length, plus a one half Transportation and Industry opportunity for a class of up to 30 Pass to visit the History Center to African American Experiences students, pre-kindergarten through investigate the opportunities for their http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/world/ hour for lunch, available Monday Cultural Geography 12th grade, to study in-depth with students. For more information or to The website for “The American Experience,” a PBS program which also through Friday, year-round. Students History Highlights museum experts. They include a tour schedule a school visit, call the History has information on ordering the video, Around the World in 72 Days. will explore many aspects of life in and/or discussion, hands-on opportunities, Center’s Group Tour Coordinator The video is a great overview of Nellie Bly’s around the world trip. Western Pennsylvania through docent- 412-454-6304. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Nellie_Bly.aspx A brief encyclopedia article. EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/ CLO Academy encourages both to traditional lectures and books. themselves, their own lives and futures. A GALLERY OF HEROES details/2/22-Cochran an appreciation for musical theater and New Horizons is Pittsburgh CLO’s “A” in Arts is Pittsburgh CLO’s way of The National Women’s Hall of Fame website. a well-rounded education through musical theater training program for recognizing excellence in school arts MUSICAL professional quality courses. students with physical and developmental programs. Students trade A’s in Book, Music and Lyrics written by http://www.nellieblyonline.com/gallery disabilities and autism. Barriers are high school arts classes for tickets to JASON COLL On this site one will find Nellie Bly trading cards. Pittsburgh CLO Academy of Musical Through dramatic sketches and musical broken down as the participants realize Pittsburgh CLO’s exciting productions Theater Just a few blocks from the bright vignettes, Pittsburgh CLO’s Gallery of the power of art, music and theater and at the Benedum Center. http://www.newseum.org/ lights of the Benedum Center, the sound of Heroes program takes its 50-minute their own untapped abilities. This website contains information on the history of newspapers. booming pianos bounces off the brightly mini-musicals to area schools to educate Student Coupons are another way painted walls of Pittsburgh CLO Academy and enlighten students about great Creative Vision is Pittsburgh CLO’s Pittsburgh CLO makes theater accessible http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/nellie.html of Musical Theater as children of all ages historical figures such as Roberto Partnership with the Pittsburgh Public to young people. Students see four This website gives a brief biography of Nellie Bly along with links to enthusiastically train for their moment in Clemente, the Wright Brothers and School System and Propel Schools. shows for only $10 each. For more other helpful sites. the spotlight. Providing the finest dance, . Highlighting the lives Training in Dance, Voice and Acting information call 412-281-2822. music, and acting training, and affiliated and accomplishments of significant combine with student creativity and http://www.nmwh.org/ with one of the most respected musical historical figures, the Gallery of Heroes accountability to promote participants’ The National Women’s History Museum website. The Nellie Bly game as published in The World, February 26, 1890. Library and theater organizations in the country, the program offers an entertaining alternative interest not only in the arts, but in Archives Division, Sen. John Heinz History Center Major support for the Gallery of Heroes is provided by Massey Charitable Trust, PNC Charitable Trust Elizabeth Cochran responds to the Nellie Bly 18 9 2 19 01 19 13 Timeline: The Amazingly True Adventures ad and signs on to write for the successfully The Homestead Strike brings Pinkerton U.S. President William McKinley Woodrow Wilson Pittsburgh Dispatch. completes her guards hired by Henry C. Frick. The is assassinated. He is succeeded becomes the of Nellie Bly Elizabeth Cochran’s first article, “The Girl trip around the guards fire on the striking workers and by Theodore Roosevelt. 28th President world in less Puzzle,” is published. 16 men are killed in the battle. United States Steel is organized of the U.S. than 80 days. 1860 1865 1872 1880 as one large company. Elizabeth Cochran assumes the pen She arrives in 18 9 3 19 14 Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President Confederate States of Ulysses S. Grant Elizabeth Cochran’s mother and siblings name, Nellie Bly. of the U.S. America surrender re-elected as move to Pittsburgh from Apollo, PA. New Jersey Nellie Bly returns to the 19 0 3 to Union forces at President of the U.S. 1886 72 days, six newspaper, now under new management, Ford Motor Company is begins (U.S. Andrew Carnegie begins large-scale hours and 11 and publishes her interview with enters in 1917). 1861 Appomattox. Nellie Bly leaves for Mexico to write founded. Confederate States of America formed. George Westinghouse steel production. View of Ohio Street, North Side, Pittsburgh. Courtesy of Carnegie minutes after anarchist . as a foreign correspondent for the Library, Pittsburgh. The first World Series baseball Bankruptcy Abraham Lincoln is invents the automatic her departure. Women working in the Brighton Laundry. Library and Archives Confederates take Fort Sumter in assassinated and railroad air brake. 18 8 1 Pittsburgh Gazette. Construction begins for the Carnegie games are played at Exposition Park, proceedings end Nellie Bly investigates the illegal activities Division, Sen. John Heinz History Center Charleston, SC and Civil War begins. Andrew Johnson J.A. Garfield becomes 20th President of After her return, Bly leaves the New York Public Library in Oakland. then home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. concerning Nellie 1873 the U.S. He dies in May and is succeeded 18 87 of New York politician Edward R. Phelps, World to lecture and publish Nellie Bly’s 1898 Bly’s companies. becomes President. Phipps Conservatory in Schenley Park Nellie Bly’s husband dies. 1863 Elizabeth Cochran’s by Vice President Chester Arthur. Nellie Bly leaves Pittsburgh for New York which leads to his removal from office. Book: Around the World in 72 Days. is completed. joins the staff of the She is reinstated President Lincoln issues the Emancipation The 13th Amendment City to further her career in journalism. First telegraphic transmission of as president of the mother remarries The Homestead Mill of the Bessemer Andrew Carnegie’s first public library Pittsburgh Dispatch and later accepts Proclamation granting freedom to all to the US Constitution 1889 18 9 4 photographs. American Steel John Jackson Ford. Steel Company opens. John Cockrill, managing editor of the opens in Allegheny City (Pittsburgh’s a job at the Pittsburgh Leader. slaves held in Confederate States. abolishes slavery. Nellie Bly publishes her first and only Workers for the Pullman Palace Car Barrel Company. Color photographs New York novel, The Mystery of Central Park. North Side). Mesta Machine Company is established 19 0 5 Lincoln delivers the “Gettysburg Address” Lewis Carroll writes 18 8 2 World, Company go on strike and Nellie Bly Bly sets sail for first developed. to manufacture machinery used in The Nickelodeon, the nation’s first movie at the dedication of a military cemetery “Alice’s Adventures Abolitionist and challenges Bly moves beyond stunt journalism and 18 9 1 travels to Chicago to write about the Europe and writes steel making. theater, opens in Pittsburgh. on the Gettysburg battlefield. US Congress in Wonderland.” E. Remington & Sons editor of “The Bly to be earns praise for her in-depth interviews First telephone line between Pittsburgh strike from the workers’ point of view. articles regarding establishes free city mail delivery. begin to manufacture Saturday Visiter committed to with leading figures in the community. and New York is connected. 1899 the frontline of 1868 typewriters. 18 9 5 1906 Nellie Bly. Courtesy of Museum of the (sic)” newspaper, a women’s In an effort to boost sagging Bly becomes president of her husband’s World War I for Auguste and Louis Lumiere Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, leads City of New York. Jane Grey Swisshelm, insane asylum newspaper sales, Bly embarks on business, the Iron Clad Manufacturing the Evening writes “Little Women.” 1875 invent a motion-picture to the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act. Sunday Magazine Newspaper. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of NY. dies. and then to her trip around the world in hopes Company. Journal. First use of the Bessemer process in camera. 1869 United States Steel production at the write about her of beating the 80 day record set by Bly is also president of a sister company, 19 07 Bly spends the next several years in 1921 18 8 3 Nellie Bly interviews Eugene V. Ulysses S. Grant becomes 18th President Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, experience for fictitious character Phileas Fogg. The American Steel Barrel Company, First daily comic strip runs in San Europe working as a war correspondent. KDKA is established in Pittsburgh as the The first skyscraper Debs, leader of the American of the United States. Pennsylvania. his newspaper. She leaves from the Hoboken Pier which manufactured steel barrels that Francisco Chronicle. country’s first commercial radio station. (10 stories) is built in New Jersey on November 14. Railway Union, while he is 19 19 George Westinghouse establishes the in Chicago. Nellie Bly feigns Bly designed and for which she held 19 10 Nellie Bly continues to write for the 1876 insanity and is She arrives in Colombo, Sri Lanka jailed for contempt of court Nellie Bly returns from Europe and Westinghouse Air Brake Company. the patents. W.E.B. DuBois founds the National New York Evening Journal and works Alexander Graham Bell invents the 18 8 4 committed to on December 8. during the Pullman Strike. finds her finances are depleted. She H.J. Heinz Company is established. Anderson Street, Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh’s North Side) Association for the Advancement of as an advocate for orphaned children. telephone. Erasmus Wilson the Women’s The Johnstown Flood claims over Nellie Bly leaves New York writes again for the New York Evening looking toward Ninth Street Bridge. Courtesy of Carnegie Colored People (NAACP). Journal. Pennsylvania Female College (now 1877 begins writing his Library, Pittsburgh. 2,300 lives. for Chicago to work briefly 1922 The house where Nellie Bly was born – Chatham College) opens. on Blackwell’s Island, New York, where for the Chicago Time-Herald Rutherford B. Hayes is elected 19th column, “Quiet Mary Croghan Schenley presents the 19 11 Bly writes several articles championing Nellie Bly dies. Cochran’s Mills, Armstrong County, PA. Observations,” for the Pittsburgh Dispatch. she lives as an inmate for 10 days. newspaper. Nellie Bly’s companies undergo financial the welfare and placement of orphaned Courtesy of Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. 1870 President of the United States by the city of Pittsburgh with 300 acres of 1923 After writing about her experience in the Nellie Bly marries Robert difficulties after several employees and children. Elizabeth Cochran’s father, Judge Michael Electoral College, despite losing the Elizabeth Cochran writes a letter to the land to be used for public parks. President W.G. Harding dies in office and asylum, Nellie Bly becomes a popular Livingston Seaman. advisors mismanage and embezzle 1864 Cochran, dies. popular vote to Samuel Tilden. Pittsburgh Dispatch in response to a 1890 1920 is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge. column by Erasmus Wilson. She signs her reporter for the New York World and Women are first admitted to money. Elizabeth Jane Cochran, later Nellie Bly, is The 19th Amendment of the U.S. The Kaufmann brothers open a men’s 1879 letter, “Lonely Orphan Girl.” leads the way for women in the field of The New York World newspaper Schools of Law and Pharmacy H.J. Heinz dies of pneumonia. born in Cochran’s Mills near Apollo, PA. clothing store on the South Side of Elizabeth Cochran’s mother divorces her “stunt journalism.” promotes Nellie Bly’s trip around the 19 12 Constitution is passed giving women at the Western University of The Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage the right to vote. Andrew Carnegie dies at his home in Abraham Lincoln is re-elected president Pittsburgh. It later becomes Kaufmann’s 3rd husband after Elizabeth testifies in 18 8 5 world and readers throughout the 1888 Pennsylvania (later University to New York. Massachusetts. of the United States. Department Store and moves to court on her mother’s behalf. Grover Cleveland becomes 22nd United States follow the accounts of of Pittsburgh). Prohibition begins in the United States. downtown Pittsburgh. President of the U.S. Nellie Bly’s popularity as a reporter her journey with great anticipation. The Gulf Oil Company opens the This law prohibits the sale of alcoholic Henry Clay Frick dies at his home in Pittsburgh composer, , Elizabeth Cochran enrolls in the Indiana grows. She continues writing exposé She arrives in Jokohama on country’s first automobile service station beverages. New York. dies in New York. State Normal School (Indiana, PA) but Managing editor for the Pittsburgh Nellie Bly in her famous traveling clothes. Courtesy of pieces which uncover political corruption January 4 and in San Francisco Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. has to withdraw after one year because Dispatch runs an ad in search of the on Baum Boulevard. and the unfair treatment of immigrants, on January 20. she has no money for tuition. “Lonely Orphan Girl” who had written The Nellie Bly Guessing Match Blank, which appeared daily in women and the poor throughout the City. such a lively response to Wilson’s article. The World in December 1889 and January 1890. Courtesy of Front and back of a tin advertisment. Electric street lights are installed for the the New York Public Library. Courtesy of Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. first time in Pittsburgh.