Arguably the most famous WWII poster, it was made to encourage women to work in the country’s defense industries. They never learned who the model for Rosie was. The poster was only displayed for two weeks in 1943 and rediscovered in the 1980’s. Women today view Rosie as a symbol of women’s empowerment. Our friend Lori won a Halloween contest a few years ago, in her navy blue jump suit and her red and white polka dot scarf. There was a large portion of the WWII museum devoted to women who served in the military and the workforce.
Such an iconic poster. I never knew until shortly before my mother‘s death that she had worked for a while sewing machine gun cover tarps for tanks during the war. So many women became independent because of that war.
Without doubt an iconic poster Lou Ann this one was on show in the Imperial War Museum in London, the real life women was an Alameda Naval Air station employee called Naomi Parker mistery solved:)
@eudora it was displayed in a Westinghouse factory for those two weeks. I would love to know the story behind someone finding it almost 40 years later!
April 11th, 2022
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