1887 With Knight & Leonard, Chicago’s leading fine printers, as a full-fledged designer at a salary of $21, and then $24 a week. 1889 Free-lancing in Chicago; studio in the Caxton Building. 1890 To Geneva, Ill., and first recognition through covers for _Harper’s Weekly_; posters for Stone & Kimball’s _Chap Book_; cover designs for the _Inland Printer_ (perhaps the first magazine covers ever to be changed monthly). 1890 The creation of a widely copied type face named “Bradley” by ATF. 1893 An exhibition at the Chicago World’s Fair. 1895 To Springfield, Mass., the launching of his Wayside Press, “At the Sign of the Dandelion,” and plans for publication of _Bradley: His Book_ ... his love for Caslon and the beginning of a new Caslon era as a result. 1895 The initial Bradley-designed paper sample book for Strathmore. 1896 Exhibits at Boston Arts and Crafts; Colonial typography attracts national attention. 1897 Caslon types on Strathmore Deckle Edge Papers prove successful; Bradley’s plant is expanded and moved to a loft in the Strathmore mill at Mittineague. 1898 Merges business with University Press, Boston. Opens design and art service in New York; specialty, bicycle catalogs. 1900 Mr. Bok, editor of _Ladies’ Home Journal_, commissions a series of eight full pages of house interiors for the _Journal_. A roman and italic face, used later for _Peter Poodle, Toy Maker to the King_, is designed for American Type Founders. While recovering from illness, _Castle Perilous_ is written, later serialized in _Collier’s_ with Bradley illustrations. 1902 _Collier’s Weekly_ appears with Bradley cover (July 4). 1903 Heads campaign of type display and publicity for American Type Founders. 1904 Writing and designing _Chap Books_ for American Type Founders; setting typographic style for decades. 1906 Writes and illustrates _Peter Poodle, Toymaker to the King_ for Dodd Mead. 1907 Art Editor of _Collier’s_. Introduces new technique in coordinating make-up, art direction and typography. Holiday number becomes collectors’ item. 1910-15 Simultaneous art editorship of _Good Housekeeping_, _Metropolitan_, _Success_, _Pearson’s_, _National Post_. Revises typographic make-up of _Christian Science Monitor_ ... beginning of a series of stories later published as _Wonderbox Stories_. 1915-17 Art supervision of motion picture serials for William Randolph Hearst, including _Patria_, starring Irene Castle.