• Because press workers would write personal notes to customers as they filled orders, purchasers would often write back, explaining how they used the cards. In this segment, Vicki Leighty recounts a teacher’s story of how she explained to her students why they were studying women’s history.
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Vicki Leighty tells a story from a teacher about Helaine Victoria Press postcards

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

  • Vicki Leighty began volunteering for Helaine Victoria Press in 1980. When Nancy Poore moved to Chicago in 1982, Vicki Leighty became the Assistant Director of the press. In 1986, she was instrumental in opening the Helaine Victoria Press Women’s History Shop in Bloomington. She continued working for Helaine Victoria Press until mid-1988. Julia Allen and Jocelyn Cohen interviewed Vicki Leighty by telephone on June 4, 2016. This segment is taken from that interview.
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