John Yang has their story. Rosie the Riveter is known as a cultural icon that encouraged women to join the workforce during wartime. But the name is often associated with the 1942 “We Can Do It!” ...
Part of the original Rosie the Riveter poster. "We can do it!" reads the caption above. In 2016, six years after he began a painstaking search for a woman in an old photograph, Professor James ...
There’s a lofty-sounding entry under “creative team” in the “Rosie the Riveter” playbill. It reads “Military Aviation Director: Keegan Chetwynd.” One expects the other names ...
building warships. Today the women who went to work in factories are known as “Rosies ” after the iconic Rosie the Riveter posters produced by the U.S. Office of the War to encourage women to ...
He was a paratrooper and was killed over there while fighting the Germans, ”said Rufina Sandoval Guerrero, a Hero Street Veteran and Rosie the Riveter. Her brother William Sandoval is one of the ...