The Lily was started in 1849 as a monthly temperance newspaper published in Seneca Falls by Amelia Bloomer. It rapidly became a voice for Stanton in her advocacy for women's rights, as well as a general source of information on related concerns. Though some sources report The Lily was the first newspaper in the United States owned and operated by a woman, others existed going back to the Eighteenth Century.

The Lily banner is from the collection of the Susan B. Anthony House in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Rochester Library