• Mother (Mary Harris) Jones (1830-1930). For 60 years, she trod up mountains in a black dress organizing the miners into the union. She dramatized to the nation the appalling plight of laborers, with the same special quality that won her the love and support of the workers. Like many of them, she was an old timer and with strength and stories she gave the mill and mining families courage. She distrusted organizations and doctrines. She was imprisoned in tents, jails, and sewers by the militia, police, and gunmen and put on and off trains, but she always came back. Her sense of justice and compassion is remembered and kept alive by people in the regions where she worked.
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Mother Jones 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 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, 4 ¼” x 6". Photo: Charleston, West VA during the Paint Creek strike, 1912
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