Ephemera printed by Susan King, 1973-1987.

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Ephemera printed by Susan King, 1973-1987.

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Printed ephemera published by Paradise Press, owned and operated by Susan King, include greeting cards, postcards, broadsides, a business card and one poster. Two postcards that show her mother with a car advertise an artist's book by Susan King, Women and Cars. One card advertises a reprint of A Typographic Discourse from Jane Grabhorn's Typographic Jumbo Press of 1937. In Transit, Los Angeles 1976 is the first self-printed piece by Susan King sent as a postcard. One broadside is for the exhibition Big Brother is Watching, 1984 at the Women's Studio Workshop. A fan-shaped card with a poem about Saint Teresa is for Emigre magazine. One broadside, designed by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, is called She and contains two poems by Martha Ronk Lifson. The oversize poster is called California Provokes Change (1985).

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