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Mar 7, 2019 · Rosie the Riveter was based on a real woman — actually, a lot of them. The US cultural icon represented the many American women who found factory work during WWII, producing war supplies and other munitions, including aircraft.
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Dec 8, 2020 · Young women and girls today need to know about Rosie the Riveter, beyond the poster image they might see on a souvenir, she says.
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Naomi Parker Fraley, the inspiration behind Rosie the Riveter, died in January 2018.
In 1942, 20-year-old Naomi Parker was working in a machine shop at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, when a photographer snapped a shot of her on the job. In the photo, released through the Acme photo agency, she’s bent over an industrial machine, wearing a jumpsuit and sensible heels, with her hair tied back in a polka-dot bandana for safety.
On January 20, 2018, less than two years after finally getting recognition as the woman in the photograph—thought to be the inspiration for the World War II-era poster girl “Rosie the Riveter”—Naomi Parker Fraleydied at the age of 96.
Fraley’s late-in-life fame came as the result of the dedicated efforts made by one scholar, James J. Kimble, to explore the history behind this American and feminist icon and to untangle the legends surrounding the famous poster. “There are so many incredible myths about it, very few of them based even remotely in fact,” Kimble says.
Rosie the Riveter
The poster in question was originally produced in 1943 by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and displayed in its factories to encourage more women to join the wartime labor force. Created by the artist J. Howard Miller, it featured a woman in a red-and-white polka-dot headscarf and blue shirt, flexing her bicep beneath the phrase “We Can Do It!”
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By Borden Black. The iconic image of a woman in overalls, her hair tied up in a bandana, and flexing her bicep below the headline, “We Can Do It,” is one of the most recognizable images from World War II. It can even be considered the precursor to the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Apr 23, 2010 · Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II, and she became perhaps the most iconic image of working women.
Jan 23, 2018 · The inside story of how a researcher found Naomi Parker Fraley, the woman in the photograph thought to have inspired a famed WWII-era poster.
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During World War II, Rosie the Riveter came to symbolize the can-do American spirit and illustrated the growing number of women who took over male-dominated manufacturing jobs to help the U.S. fight during the war. Taking inspiration from her strength and determination, real-life Rosies began to emerge across the country.
