[3][4] Nirdlinger attended a convent school in Milwaukee, and pursued post-graduate studies in Literature at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

If they were users of catalogues, booklets, circulars, and special advertising literature, she could execute that part of the work with the modern equipment of her company.

She had arranged and delivered complete catalogues, illustrating men's and women's fashions, shoes, stoves, machinery, fire-brick, toys, jewelry, and automobiles, and graphically designed booklets on numerous subjects.

The series included the books Althea, or, the children of Rosemont plantation[5] and Dear Friends, both published by the Benziger Brothers in 1908.

The first book in the series was adopted by the Commissioners of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition as the official souvenir for young people, and was illustrated by Egbert Cadmus (1868–1939).

[6] Active membership was open only to women who were and had "been, as a means of livelihood, actually engaged for a period of at least three years," in one of the phases of advertising (creation, production, executive).

[7] Nirdlinger volunteered at the Guardian Angel Settlement Association on Tenth and Menard Streets, where she conducted a businesswomen's literary class.