"Parker-Fraley spent decades unaware of her connection to the poster, mostly because another woman named Geraldine Hoff Doyle, who worked in a factory in Michigan, had been labeled 'the real-life Rosie the Riveter' since she believed she saw herself in an un-captioned reprint of Parker-Fraley's photo in the 1980s.
"Because Hoff Doyle bore a striking resemblance to Parker-Fraley, no one questioned her claim, and her story traveled around the world. "
Tiare Dunlap in People writes about how James J. Kimble argues that Naomi Parker-Fraley of California was the model for J. Howard Miller's 1943 poster of Rosie the Riveter.
Monday, December 12, 2016
"She Had Been Robbed of Her Part of History"
Labels:
1940s,
art,
California,
cultural history,
economic history,
gender,
history,
social history,
twentieth century,
World War II
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She was robbed but at least she's alive to see the correction.
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