Anagram Press and Springtide Press in Tacoma Washington have teamed up to print a series of “feminist broadsides” — that’s the latest to the left. It’s got a quote by Thea Foss, who founded the Foss Tugboat company in Tacoma. Each one has a quote and a short history of the woman quoted — for Foss:
Norwegian immigrant Thea Christiansen Foss (1857 – 1927) arrived by train to Tacoma in 1889 as Washington achieved statehood. While her husband Andrew was at work she spent five dollars on a rowboat, launching a marine transport business that would grow into Foss Maritime, operating the west coast’s largest fleet of tugboats. Thea inspired the character “Tugboat Annie” featured in a “Saturday Evening Post” series, motion pictures and a television show. Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway is an inlet connected to Puget Sound named in her honor.
Others in the series are
- , about Alice Paul
- “Come, come my conservative friend wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see the world moving”, about Elizabether Cady Stanton
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams, about Eleanor Roosevelt.