• Paula Worley sitting behind a pile of papers and postcards working on the postcard archives. Paula came from Bloomington to the print shop and office in Martinsville at least twice a month. She would set up a card table and take out the piles of postcards to catalog. She also would send thank you certificates to donors and solicit new cards to add to the growing collection. After the office moved to Bloomington, her hometown, Paula came in every week to help build the Postcard Archive, a collection of 5,000 or so postcards.
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Paula Worley, 1983

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

  • The Postcard Archive Project had three goals: first, collecting and cataloging; second, making available for public use; third, organizing a biographical file for each postcard, plus supplemental information on the postcard artist and publisher. The press achieved most of these goals. The archive is in the Schlesinger Collection at Radcliffe College and includes a biographical file, index cards on each artist or publisher, and the spreadsheet log.
    From the Helaine Victoria Press Records, Special Collections, Smith College, catalog information:
    File name: smith_ssc_209_99S-31_b014_043
    Record number: 8326
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