• Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) is best known as the first woman to run for the American Presidency (1872) and, with her sister Tennie C., the first woman stockbroker on Wall St. Her ever-changing causes included spiritualism, free love, eugenics, and communism, but she remained committed to women’s rights. Top rank suffragists both wooed her for publicity value and rejected her as too racy. Her critics were many and harsh and good reputation became her obsession. Hurt and forgotten in the U.S. she turned to English philanthropies in old age.
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Victoria Woodhull postcard

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • Part of the Women in History accordion album of 8 postcards. Helaine Victoria’s premier offering showcasing their creative letterpress style and craft. Jocelyn and Nancy created this album shortly after setting up their letterpress shop in Indiana. Their new logo, Columbia, appeared on the back cover of the album. Although the two of them produced many ambitious pieces of ephemera, this may have been the most ambitious on every level. Eight new postcards in an elegant handmade album folder, designed, printed, and bound by Jocelyn Cohen and Nancy Poore. Printed letterpress in black with silver detail, 4 ¼ x 6”.
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