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Rosie The Riveter Facts For Kids. During World War II, Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign to get more women to work in the defense industry. Rosie became an iconic image of working women. “We can do it!”.
Who is Rosie the Riveter? Rosie the Riveter was a symbolic representation of the women who worked in factories and shipyards of the United States of America during World War II. During the world wars, many countries organized propaganda campaigns to encourage women to participate in the war effort.
23 kwi 2010 · Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II. Artist Normal Rockwell's cover image of Rosie, made in...
In 1943 the song “Rosie the Riveter,” by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb, was released. This song talks about the patriotic qualities of the mythical female war employee who defends America by working on the home front.
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, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.
by Dr. Margaret C. Conrads and Dr. Beth Harris. Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, 1943, oil on canvas, 52 x 40 inches (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) Video transcript. Images for teaching and learning. Cite this page. Representing women who entered the workforce during WWII, Rosie is strong, determined, and eating a ham sandwich.
Norman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter received mass distribution on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on Memorial Day, May 29, 1943. Rockwell’s illustration features a brawny woman taking her lunch break with a rivet gun on her lap, beneath her a copy of Hitler’s manifesto, Mein Kampf and a lunch pail labled “Rosie”.
