Object Details
- commissioner
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- distributor
- War Production Coordinating Committee
- Miller, J. Howard
- Description
- Artist J. Howard Miller produced this work-incentive poster for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. Though displayed only briefly in Westinghouse factories, the poster in later year has become one of the most famous icons of World War II.
- As women were encouraged to take wartime jobs in defense industries, they became a celebrated symbol of female patriotism. But when the war ended, many industries forced women to relinquish their skilled jobs to returning veterans.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1942
- ID Number
- 1985.0851.05
- accession number
- 1985.0851
- catalog number
- 1985.0851.05
- Object Name
- poster
- Object Type
- Posters
- Photolithograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22 in x 17 in; 55.88 cm x 43.18 cm
- Related Publication
- Colman, Penny. Rosie the Riveter
- Smithsonian
- National Museum of American History. Treasures of American History online exhibition
- Related Web Publication
- https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/treasures-american-history
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Home Front Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Advertising
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- National Treasures exhibit
- Princeton Posters
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Homefront, World War II
- depicted
- Rosie the Riveter
- related event
- World War II
- Record ID
- nmah_538122
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-6875-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
