Bread and Roses: Women in the American labor movement [set of eight postcards]

Martinsville, IN: Helaine Victoria Press, 1979. Two uncut sheets containing the full set of eight 3.5x5.5 inch photographic postcards of activists and cultural figures, each with a photo of the relevant figure or figures on one side and a substantial biographical paragraph on the other side. Includes Crystal Lee Jordan, Frances Perkins, Lucy Parsons, and movements such as the Child Labor March and the 1937 auto strike. Also included is a cover card showing all eight images together. Helaine Victoria Press, which took its name from the middle names of founders Jocelyn Helaine Cohen and Nancy Taylor Victoria Poore, started with an offset press in Santa (truncated) Monica but switched to an 80-year old cast iron letterpress, “the method which was standard when we were trying to get the vote.” The press is remembered as the pre-eminent producer of feminist historical postcards in the 1970s and 1980s. It is the subject of a recent book by Julia Allen and Jocelyn Cohen, "Women making history: The revolutionary feminist postcard art of Helaine Victoria Press. (Inventory #: 326448)