HELAINE VICTORIA PRESS / Drop title Bread & Roses Women in the American Labor For Sale

Author: HELAINE VICTORIA PRESS
Title: [Drop title] Bread & Roses: Women in the American Labor Movement. Set of Eight Postcards, in a Single Uncut Sheet
Publication: Martinsville, IN: Helaine Victoria Press, 1979

Description: 38.7x28cm: Single uncut sheet containing the complete set of eight attractively printed photographic postcards featuring women organizers, activists, leaders, and organizations of the American Labor Movement. The recto of each postcard is illustrated with a photo of the featured woman or women printed in sepia, with borders printed in blue and an emblem printed in copper. A biographical sketch of the individual’s or organization’s contributions to the American Labor Movement is printed on the verso. Fine.

Subjects featured on the postcards include The Women’s Emergency Brigade at the United Auto Workers Strike, The Women’s Trade Union Catalogue which was founded to promote collective bargaining for women wage-earners, Crystal Lee Jordan Sutton who helped organize textile workers in the 1970s, and Frances Perkins who served as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945 and was the first woman in the Presidential Cabinet. The uncut sheet is accompanied by a separate composite postcard that shows all eight images together.

The Helaine Victoria Press, an unusual mixture of lesbian feminist politics and fine letterpress technique, was founded in 1973 by Nancy Poore and Jocelyn Cohen. The press took its name from a combination of Cohen’s middle name, Helaine, and Poore’s pen name, Victoria. Inspired by the Women’s Liberation Movement, the Feminist Art Movement, and later, the Women in Print Movement, Poore and Cohen would grow Helaine Victoria Press into the first publisher of women’s history postcards. These postcards, along with other materials produced by the press, including broadsides, notecards, and bookplates, “were clearly artistic material objects, yet they bore rhetorical messages and were motivated by a desire to broadcast information and to educate.”.

Seller ID: 10497

Subject: Art & Design, Ephemera, Feminism, Letterpress / Printmaking, Photographs, Social Movements, Women, Women Authors / Artists

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