• Helaine Victoria Press Philadelphia Special Edition insert for a set of postcards assembled in honor of the National NOW conference and the US Bicentennial.

NOW National Conference 1975 Postcard Set insert

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

  • Jocelyn Cohen and Nancy Poore designed the insert that was in the front of a set of 17 postcards, all celebrating women’s history. Topics ranged from woman suffrage, abolition, economics, and temperance to politics, architecture, literature, painting, adventure, and more. The pack included cards honoring Sojourner Truth, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Bonheur, Frances Willard, Maud Gonne, Alice B. Toklas, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Poore and Cohen prepared 200 sets. Each insert had two or three USPS postage stamps honoring women. The assortment varied.
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