Rosie the Riveter (Symbolic character)
Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Scope Note: Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Margaret E. (Wolfe) Berry Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2019-00-00-102
Contents of the Collection
The Margaret E. (Wolfe) Berry Collection largely documents Margaret Berry's volunteer work with three aircraft restoration projects during the 1980s-1990s with visual and textual components. A small amount of material is personal in nature. The collection is arranged into two series: Aircraft Restoration materials and Personal materials.Series I: Aircraft Restoration materials makes up the bulk of the collection and has been further divided into three...
Joyce Parker World War II Personal History
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2024-01-19
Content Description
The Joyce Parker World War II Personal History is a small collection consisting of an autobiographical narrative by Joyce Parker who worked as a "Rosie the Riveter" at the Boeing Company during World War II as well as two photographic portraits. The story, which is four handwritten pages in a spiral-bound notebook, explains how teenage girls and women were recruited to work toward the war effort. Parker initially worked as a messenger for the Office of Civilian Defense. Then, she...
Signed Group Portrait of African American "Rosie the Riveters"
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2018-00-00-24
Contents of the Collection
The collection consists of a single black-and-white group portrait of eight (8) female African American Boeing assembly workers. It is likely the women worked at the Boeing Renton facility, circa 1940s. The women are posed in front of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress and each has signed the photograph with their name: Back row, left to right: Louise Williams, [illegible], Velma Glass Johnson, Florence Thomas;
Front row, left to right: Katie Jeffries, Althea Skelton, Ella Mae, Mary...
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