• Isadora Duncan (1878-1927). “She lifted from their seats people who had never left theater seats before except to get up and go home,” said Janet Flanner. Barefoot, in flowing fabrics, Isadora was the antithesis of ballet. She unified all the arts and celebrated liberty of the human spirit. Her own children drowned, and she legally adopted more than 30 others. She danced for the common and the crowned, in parts of the world never reached by other celebrities except on film.
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Isadora Duncan 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, 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, 4 ¼” x 6".
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