• After the new print shop at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park had been set up for opening, Helaine Victoria Press, along with friends and colleagues, prints a commemorative broadside honoring the new Suffrage Press. The broadside commemorates the Lily Press, Helaine Victoria Press, and women’s activism in print.
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The event: Girls at Night, Helaine Victoria Press and friends print one last broadside at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park

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

  • Filmed at the Woman Suffrage printshop, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY April 29, 1995, after the new print shop had been set up for opening. Filmed with a Hi-8 camera by Patricia Antelles. Jocelyn Cohen worked with Convivial Design in May, 2021 to create the clips for this book and to document yet another historic event in Seneca Falls. Participants in the video include: Cohen, Jocelyn H.; Sparks, Laura; Brown, Lizzie; Waltz, Lydia; Bly, Becky; Owens, Maureen; Antelles, Patricia; Rotegard, Laura; Burns, Karen, all of whom collaborated on the printing and design of the Girls at Night broadside. The National Park Service had purchased the Helaine Victoria Press printshop and the Chandler & Price platen press for a nominal sum in order to establish a working press to teach children about the importance of print communication in the struggle for women’s suffrage. Patricia Antelles filmed the opening ceremonies and this late-night event at The Suffrage Press. This segment is composed from that film.
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