[8][9] In 1913, Higgins painted a cover for the Saturday Evening Post that focused on the United States women's suffrage movement.

[10] Around the mid-1910s, she created a series of books for the Whitman Publishing Co. under the name "Story Time Tales".

[11] Higgins was also the illustrator of the comic strip "Drowsy Dick", first published in the Sunday World.

[2][7] "Junior Editors" started in 1954 and was meant to capture children's attention during the competing rise of magazines and television.

The feature ran six times a week and included text and a do-it-yourself section for children.