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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Wayback on December 30, 2010, 06:16:49 PM

Title: RIP Geraldine Hoff Doyle, "Rosie the Riveter/We Can Do It!" model, 86
Post by: Wayback on December 30, 2010, 06:16:49 PM

Geraldine Hoff Doyle was the World War II factory worker whose bandana-wearing image in a wire-service photo is said to have been the model for the "Rosie the Riveter" woman depicted in the iconic 1942 "We Can Do It!" poster. She was 86:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-geraldine-hoff-doyle-20101231,0,1376340.story