"Nellie Bly Around the World in 72 Days" Elizabeth Jane Cochran, a famous journalist, is subject of the plate. . Her first editor, sticking with the then-custom of female journalists using pseudonyms, adopted her name from a popular song by Stephen Foster "Nelly Bly" but he wrote "Nellie" in an error and the name stuck. "in 1889, with 2 days notice, she boarded a ship and began her 40,070 KM journey". After 72 days, traveling by sea and overland, she returned to New York with a world record.

NOTE: Sid Lethbridge: “patent for the Design was issued in April 1890 to William Walter who assigned it to the Thompson Glass Co.” there was a trade report on Apr 3, 1890, re the Nellie Bly plate, for which the company had high hopes.