Thanks for sharing this Scott! One of my favorites. (Yes, I have been known to dress up as Rosie for local 1940's events.)
Did you know . . .
Before Rockwell's or Miller's posters existed there was a "Rosie the Riveter" song! Published as sheet music late in 1942, it was recorded by the Four Vagabonds, a vocal quartet from St. Louis, They were known to be one of the classic pioneer vocal harmony groups to record in the 1940s.
The “We Can Do It!” poster by J. Howard Miller was unknown to the American public in the 1940s. Produced for Westinghouse, it was displayed only in the company’s helmet-liner factories, and only for two weeks in 1943. She wasn’t widely seen until her discovery in a 1982 Washington Post Magazine article about patriotic posters in the National Archives that she became the iconic Rosie the Riveter that is so loved today!
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Thanks for sharing this Scott! One of my favorites. (Yes, I have been known to dress up as Rosie for local 1940's events.)
Did you know . . .
Before Rockwell's or Miller's posters existed there was a "Rosie the Riveter" song! Published as sheet music late in 1942, it was recorded by the Four Vagabonds, a vocal quartet from St. Louis, They were known to be one of the classic pioneer vocal harmony groups to record in the 1940s.
The “We Can Do It!” poster by J. Howard Miller was unknown to the American public in the 1940s. Produced for Westinghouse, it was displayed only in the company’s helmet-liner factories, and only for two weeks in 1943. She wasn’t widely seen until her discovery in a 1982 Washington Post Magazine article about patriotic posters in the National Archives that she became the iconic Rosie the Riveter that is so loved today!
And now you know!!