• Students were drawn to Helaine Victoria Press cards as sources of information about lives and communities with which they were unfamiliar.
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Prof. Barbara Ann Caruso describes how Helaine Victoria Press cards affected students

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

  • Prof. Barbara Ann Caruso was on the faculty in the English Department at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, a school founded by Quakers. She served as chair of the Board of Directors of Helaine Victoria Press during the 1980s and also invited Nancy Poore and Jocelyn Cohen to come to Earlham to address students on feminist history and activism. Jocelyn Cohen and Julia Allen interviewed Barbara Ann Caruso by telephone on January 7, 2019. This segment is taken from that interview.
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