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    Manpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Belva Fletcher, left, handicapped by progressive paralysis, is still able to do a good job for Uncle Sam. With twenty-five-year-old Henriette Furley, she's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, where this work is done under subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. Henriette is badly crippled by arthritis and must work standing because of the arthritic condition from which she suffers. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland
    Do It! Save Lives, Stay Home
    We Can Do It!
    "Modern Rosie the riveter"
    T-shirt, America3 America's Cup Yacht Racing Team, 1995
    Tradeswomen Empowerment Retreat 2003
    Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium 1945-Jan-15
    Sisters in the Brotherhood
    US Pizza, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, proudly presents their mural of Uncle Sam flanked by WWI doughboys (right) and WWIIs Rosie the Riveter. Rosies collar button is altered with the number 911, the date of the terrorist attack against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
    Rosie the Riveter socks, Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women, 2017-01-21
    Rosie the riveter (electrical assembly line, Hoffman Radio Corporation), 1951 (Image Collection)
    "Rosie the Riveter" ...Lockheed Aircraft, 1951 (Collection of Images)
    A proclamation: Rosie the Riveter Day, May 21, 2015
    WHAT HAS ROSIE THE RIVETER TO DO WITH Fresh Strawberries for Thanksgiving?
    Beaumont, Texas. Mammie Fairchild and Dorothy Mason working on a bus at the city transit company
    We Can Do It! Rosie the Riveter.
    Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill
    Negro, Mexican, and white girls are employed at the Pacific Parachute Company. San Diego, California
    Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. Boats are fitted with various pockets for carrying emergency rations and other equipment. This picture shows outer tube of boat completed before bottom has been applied. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio
    Beaumont, Texas. Women workers leaving the Pennsylvania shipyards
    Women in essential services. Two women railroad workers enjoy a moment of relaxation from their new job in the yards of the Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco
    C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa
    Women welders on the way to their job at the Todd Erie Basin dry dock
    Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic at the Naval Air Base, in the Assembly and Repair Department, Corpus Christi, Texas
    Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa
    Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee
    New Britain, Connecticut. Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant
    Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas
    Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas
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