• The caption on the back of the card includes a reproduction of the sheet music for “The Rebel Girl,” words and music by Joe Hill, an itinerant IWW laborer framed for murder and executed by the state of Utah.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn postcard, back, "Rebel Girl" inset photo

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

  • Jumbo 5 ½” x 7¼” postcard, one of six postcards on a press sheet called the Women from History series by Helaine Victoria Enterprises (original imprint name). Printed in green at California Institute of the Arts on a Rotaprint press, considered a pioneer of small-format offset printing.
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