• Front: Women in Social Protest: The US Since 1915 A Photographic Postcard Series. Women Strike for Peace. Members of Women Strike for Peace demonstrating against the testing of an atmospheric atomic bomb, Nevada, 1962. The back provides information on how to receive a Helaine Victoria Press catalog.

Women in Social Protest bookmark

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

  • Helaine Victoria Press printed 100s of thousands of bookmarks to be given away with mail orders and at conferences and festivals. A bookmark was always added with the sale of every out-of-print book by and about women. This particular bookmark used one of the photos from the Women in Social Protest series. On most of the offset press runs, there was extra space in the margin, and Nancy Poore and Jocelyn Cohen had come up with the idea to fill it with two or three bookmarks. After all, doing so did not add to the cost of the press run, just a little time to pre-press production, and what a bonus! Printed 6 ¼” x 2” in the same colors as the postcard series: black and deep rose.
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