• Amelia Earhart, president of the 99’s, women pilots’ organization, posing with 3 members for a benefit roller skating party held in 1933 to raise funds for a plane. Left to right: Earhart (1897-1937) often expressed that women can and must take on challenges. She set an example in her love of flying, as she said, “for the fun of it.” Elvy Kalep, the first civilian pilot in Estonia, created aviation books and toys and is an artist and linguist; Frances Marsalis (ca. 1890-1934), racing pilot, set the endurance record of 10 days aloft; Betty Gillies (b. 1908) demonstrated and sold planes and was a commander in the WASPS.
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Amelia Earhart & the 99's 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, all in all 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 with silver detail, 4 ¼” x 6".
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