Rosie the Riveter
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Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in the factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war s
A "Rosie" putting rivets on an Vultee A-31 Vengeance in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1943
Women workers in the ordnance shops of Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company in Nicetown, Pennsylvania, during World War I, 1918
A woman operating a turret lathe, 1942
A man and woman riveting team in 1942 working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 aircraft at the plant of North American Aviation
Geraldine Doyle
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Geraldine Doyle was an American woman who had been widely and mistakenly promoted in the media as the possible real-life model for the World War II era "We Can Do It!" poster, later thought to be an e
Rosie the Riveter
…Press International wire service photograph taken of a young female war worker, widely but erroneously reported as being a photo of Michigan war worker Geraldine Hoff (later Doyle). More recent evidence indicates that the formerly misidentified photo is actually of war worker Naomi Parker (later Fraley) taken at…
Hoff in 1942
Geraldine Doyle claimed to have been the model for the "We Can Do It!" poster.