mercredi 24 janvier 2018
The "Real" Rosie the Riveter Passes Away at 96
The woman believed to be the real Rosie the Riveter, Naomi Parker Fraley, died in hospice care on Jan. 20 at age 96. Her passing comes just two years after she was officially recognized as the inspiration for the famous World War II poster. Fraley was a factory worker at Alameda Naval Station, according to CNN affiliate KATU, and one of millions of women who went to work for their country during the war.
Fraley's daughter-in-law Marnie Blankenship said that over 60 years after the Rosie the Riveter poster first came out, Fraley saw the photograph that was being promoted as the inspiration for the poster and instantly recognized it as a picture a photographer took of her decades before. It wasn't until Seton Hall University Professor James J. Kimble started researching the issue that he realized the original photograph had a caption, one that named Fraley as the woman in the photo and not Geraldine Hoff Doyle, as was previously believed. "She didn't think she did anything special," Blankenship said about why Naomi never came forward. "A lot of women did what she did. She just wanted her picture corrected."
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