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Telegram, September 20, 1897, 1–2.

“Says the Northerner” and other quotations from this article: Banks, “Negro,” 459–74.

“America is not a land of equality”: Banks, Autobiography, 157.

“Wells-Barnett” and other quotations from this scene: Wells-Barnett, Crusade, 255.

“despite my best”: Ibid., 216.

“like they were little feathers”: Green and Kelly, Night, 24.

“as easy to get into Galveston”: Black, “Rambles, Part V,” 36.

“slimy with the debris of the sea” and “negroes”: Quoted in Green, Flood, 88.

“He told us what he was thinking”: Ibid., 93.

Chapter 18: Vanishing Ink (1900–Present)

“nonfiction novel” and “a serious new art form”: New York Times, January 16, 1966, BR2.

“By trial and error” and “the everyday gestures”: Wolfe, “Great American Novel,” 158.

“Lucia stood and watched”: Jewell County Monitor, November 27, 1895, 3.

“I see a child”: Didion, Slouching, 127–28.

“sensibility, the tonal range”: New York Times, March 13, 2005, G1.

“slow drip of petty disclosure,” “big, earnest blob,” and “the Godfather behind”: Wolcott, “Me, Myself,” 216, 214.

“artfully told narrative”: Boynton, New New Journalism, xi–xxxii.

“in the best tradition of newspaper sob sisterism”: Yurick, “Sob-Sister,” 158.

“Don’t bother to look for it here”: Thompson, Fear, 33.

“The only reason Wolfe seems ‘new’”: Thompson, “Jacket Copy,” 108.

“spy-glass”: Hurston, Mules, 1.

“I hurried back to Eatonville”: Ibid., 2.

“Hanged for stealing hogs” and other examples: Wells, Selected Works.

“pretty and personable” and other quotations from and about this article: Steinem, Outrageous, 29–69.

“Though I identified emotionally”: Ibid., 16.

“Eventually, dawning feminism”: Ibid.

“Someone ought to do”: Ehrenreich, Nickel, 1.

“Something is wrong, very wrong”: Ibid., 199.

“I perceived it, specifically”: Faludi, Darkroom, 52.

“As I look back on it, it was a good piece” and other quotations from this source: Author interview.

“a world of deception”: Author interview.

“Tales Told Out of School”: New York Times, November 30, 2014, 18.

“kiss-and-tell”: Haggard, “Suki Kim,” https://www.piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/suki-kim-without-you-there-no-us-my-time-sons-north-koreas.

“Great insights from ‘that girl’” and other quotations from this panel: “From the Inside: A Conversation on Immersion and Undercover Reporting,” Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference, 2017.

“I courted that organization”: Author interview.

Chapter 19: Anonymous Sources (Present)

“trying to make a reputation”: Volume 9, CHMCMS.

“Guess which of the above is the ‘girl reporter’”: Chicago Times, December 21, 1888, 4.

What I Know About the Girl Reporter: Details are taken from her Chicago Times series in December 1888.

“Physicians Who Recommend Others Who Would Commit Abortion”: Chicago Times, December 27, 1888, 1.

“That lady reporter of theirs”: Chicago Times, January 4, 1889, 4.

“Florence Noble, alias Margaret Noble”: Inter Ocean, January 9, 1889, 9.

“the girl reporter”: Sterling Daily Gazette, January 9, 1889, 2.

“The Chicago Times Company, James J. West”: Silva vs. Chicago Times, January 1889, G-70667, CCCA.

“The Girl Reporter of the Chicago Times Is Here”: Ashland Weekly News, January 23, 1889, 6.

“committed to the Joliet asylum” and “suffered from delusions”: Chicago Tribune, May 8, 1924, 20.

“That the young woman filled”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 338.

“Years ago, a degenerate public”: Cahoon, “Gutter,” 572.

“a homeless fallen woman”: Ibid., 572–73.

“dark, dingy, and dirty”: Chicago Tribune, September 5, 1888, 5.

“O, Mrs. Carpenter”: Ibid.

“I would feel myself lost among them”: Chicago Times, December 19, 1888, 1.

Chapter 20: A Collection of Endings (1899–1922)

“Think of what a greater”: Sun, September 24, 1899, 1.

“Mrs. Katherine Swan”: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 23, 1901, 2.

“the famous ‘Kate Swan’”: Star-Gazette, June 16, 1908, 7.

“Go”: Black, “Rambles, Part V,” 256.

“Annie Laurie Tells of the Spectral City”: San Francisco Examiner, April 22, 1906, 10.

“Get the idea out of your heads”: Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, July 4, 1919, 12.

“You will smile it out”: Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, October 2, 1907, Box 2, Folder 16, NYPLJP.

“The story itself is almost”: Tennessean, October 20, 1912, 43.

“It was the happiest work”: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.

“During the 90’s”: Detroit Free Press, March 22, 1936.

“You know what the Lord”: Courier-News, June 15, 1915, 11.

“What the Women Are Doing in the War”: Courier-News, March 21, 1917, 1.

“As a stranger, I could”: Banks, Remaking, 172.

“Where else in the world”: Ibid., 182.

“Boys come and shake hands”: Wells-Barnett, Crusade, 401.

“They are now enjoying the result”: Wells-Barnett, Arkansas, 11.

“Pray to live”: Wells-Barnett, Crusade, 403.

“kind, courteous, and persistent effort”: Arthur Brisbane to Nellie Bly, June 28, 1907, Box 12, Folder Brisbane, Arthur/Bly, Nellie, 1907–1912, SULBF.

“doing much more useful work”: Arthur Brisbane to Nellie Bly, June 13, 1912, Box 12, Folder, Brisbane, Arthur/Bly, Nellie, 1907–1912, SULBF.

“Nellie Bly was THE BEST”: Quoted in Kroeger, Nellie Bly, 509.

Sources

Archives and Special Collections

1898 Textile Strike in New Bedford: scrapbooks of clippings collected by Harry Beetle Hough. Widener Library, Harvard University (WLHBH). (Many of the clippings in these scrapbooks are missing dates and, often, the names of the newspapers where the articles were printed.)

Elizabeth L. Banks Papers. University of Tulsa, Special Collections and University Archives at McFarlin Library (UTBP).

Brisbane Family Papers. Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries (SULBF).

Brisbane 2001 Addition. Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries (SULBA).

Chicago Medical Society Records, 1852–1912. Chicago History Museum Research Center (CHMCMS).

Chicago Women’s Club Records. Chicago History Museum Research Center (CHMCWC).

Circuit Court of Cook County Archives (CCCA).

Albert Dollenmayer and Family Papers. Minnesota Historical Society (MHSDP).

Frederick Douglass Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (LCDP).

Phoebe Hearst Papers. Bancroft Library, University of California (BLPHP).

William Randolph Hearst Papers. Bancroft Library, University of California (BLWHP).

Elizabeth Garver Jordan Papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations (NYPLJP).

Kautz Family YMCA Archives. University of Minnesota Libraries (UMLKF).

Joseph Pulitzer Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries (CUPP).

The Papers of Joseph Pulitzer, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (LCPP).

Don Carlos Seitz Papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library (NYPLSP).

Eva McDonald Valesh Papers. Minnesota Historical Society (MHSVP).

Reminiscences of Eva MacDonald Valesh: Oral History, 1952. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries (CUL).

Ida B. Wells Papers. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library (UCIWP).

The World (New York) Records. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries (CUWP).

Works by Elizabeth Banks

Pollock, Polly. “She Aspires to Love.” St. Paul Globe, September 14, 1888.

–––. “Fashions at Home.” St. Paul Globe, September 23, 1888.

–––. “A Womanly Woman.” St. Paul Globe, November 4, 1888.

–––. “Polly’s Confession.” St. Paul Globe, November 25, 1888.

–––. “Presents Pinching.” St. Paul Globe, January 6, 1889.

Banks, Elizabeth. “As Ourselves See Us.” Chicago Tribune, December 17, 1892.

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