• The Women’s Rights National Historical Park created The Suffrage Press using the Helaine Victoria Press print shop. School children came to learn about nineteenth and early twentieth-century communication technologies that led to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.
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Jocelyn Cohen narrates the transit of the Helaine Victoria Press printshop from Indiana to Seneca Falls, New York, where it became The Suffrage Press

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

  • The National Park Service had purchased the Helaine Victoria Press printshop and 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. On July 22 and August 4, 1994, Patricia Antelles filmed Jocelyn Cohen in the printshop in Martinsville, Indiana, and on April 29, 1995, she filmed the new Suffrage Press printshop in Seneca Falls, NY. This segment was taken from those films; Jocelyn Cohen added the narration in May of 2021.
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