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Rosie the Riveter memorial at the Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden in San Diego, California, 2024. A "Rosie" putting rivets on an Vultee A-31 Vengeance in Nashville, Tennessee , in 1943 Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II ...
For most Americans, Rosie the Riveter, the arm-flexing female factory worker in a World War II wartime poster, is a symbol of American strength and resiliency during one of history's darkest periods.
A Rosie the Riveter poster, which has since become a feminist allegory, shows a woman with her hair in a red-and-white, polka-dot scarf, and long eyelashes. Her blue shirt sleeve is rolled up as ...
Rosie the Riveter File:We Can Do It (Hi-Res 1).jpg Hi-Res version 1 File:We can do it (Hi-Res 2).jpg Hi-Res Version 2. I was pleasantly suprised to see that this image was in the public domain, since it is one of the most enduring WWII home front images ever made.
Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the six million women who worked in the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II while the men (who traditionally performed this work) were fighting in the Pacific and European Theaters.
Ultimately, the Rosie workforce in the U.S. produced 300,000 planes, 100,000 tanks, 88,000 warships, 47 tons of artillery shells and 44 billion rounds of ammunition. During the war, Mae married a ...
And, FWIW, current Rosie the Riveterish FPs: poster, worker, and also similar (two of these are already in the short Rosie the Riveter article). --jjron 08:18, 1 May 2008 (UTC) Thanks for the link to the other Rosie-the-Riveter FPs. All great photos, and I believe the other Rosies are from the same OWI photo series.
It's nice, big, full color photo from 1942, illustrating a pivotal component (and a cultural icon) of America's war effort in World War II, Rosie the Riveter, the women of America's work force. We already have Image:Rosie the Riveter.jpg (the famous "We Can Do It" propaganda) as a featured picture, and this compliments it, wonderfully showing ...