Helaine Victoria Press ephemera collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
The collection consists of 102 postcards and other ephemera designed, printed and published by Helaine Victoria Press, with a focus on women’s history. Materials include postcards, bookmarks, holiday cards, keepsakes, advertisements, promotional materials, catalogs, newsletters, sample portfolios, letterpress broadsides, and posters.
Dates
- Creation: 1973-1995
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1973 - 1989
Creator
- Helaine Victoria Press (Organization)
Language
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The Helaine Victoria Press ephemera collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Helaine Victoria Press ephemera collection is the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
History of Helaine Victoria Press
Jocelyn Helaine Cohen and Nancy Victoria Taylor Poore co-founded Helaine Victoria Press, an educational non-profit organization, in Los Angeles in 1973. Cohen and Poore designed, printed, published, and distributed postcards and other ephemera on women’s history and culture. Their products were distributed nationwide through mail-order and retail. HVP relocated to Martinsville, Indiana, in the 1970s, and then to Bloomington, Indiana, in the 1980s. The press ceased publishing in 1990. In 1995, the press was transferred to the Suffrage Print Shop of The Women’s Rights National History Park in Seneca Falls, New York.
Extent
2.4 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 oversize box)
Abstract
102 items created by Helaine Victoria Press between 1973 and 1995. Includes postcards, bookmarks, catalogs, newsletters, promotional materials, broadsides, and other printed ephemera.
Organization
Organized in two series
- Series 1: Printed ephemera, 1973-1990
- Box 1
- Series 2: Oversize, 1973-1989
- Box 2
Collection Stack Location
3a 29
Provenance
Purchased by the Newberry Library in 2015.
Processed by
Joy Orillo-Dotson, 2016.
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Services, which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
- Helaine Victoria Press (Organization)
- Cohen, Jocelyn H. (Person)
- Poore, Nancy (Nancy Taylor Victoria) (Person)
Genre / Form
- Advertisements -- Indiana -- 1951-2000
- Bookmarks -- 1951-2000
- Broadsides -- Indiana -- 1951-2000
- Christmas cards -- Indiana -- Martinsville -- 1951-2000
- Ephemera -- Indiana -- 1951-2000
- Greeting cards -- Indiana -- Martinsville -- 1951-2000
- Handmade papers (Paper) -- Indiana -- Martinsville -- 1951-2000
- Keepsakes -- Indiana -- Martinsville -- 1951-2000
- Letterpress works -- Indiana -- Martinsville -- 1951-2000
- New Year cards -- Indiana -- Martinsville -- 1951-2000
- Newsletters -- California -- Los Angeles -- 1951-2000
- Newsletters -- Indiana -- Martinsville -- 1951-2000
- Postcards -- Indiana -- Martinsville -- 1951-2000
- Posters -- Indiana -- 1951-2000
- Printed ephemera -- Indiana -- 1951-2000
- Promotional materials -- Indiana -- 1951-2000
- Sales catalogs -- Indiana -- 1951-2000
- Samples -- Indiana -- Martinsville -- 1951-2000
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Helaine Victoria Press ephemera collection, 1973-1995, bulk 1973-1989
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Joy Orillo-Dotson, 2016.
- Date
- ©2016.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
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