[lbo-talk] Photographs of Workers

[Carrol Cox]

Shag, are you familiar with the refrigerator ad from the war years with the
caption "When my husband comes home I'm going to show him the door." Rosie
the riveter should never be mentioned except in the same breath as the woman
in that ad. They both often appeared in the same issue of a magazine. One
focused on immediate need, the other was preparation for the post-war
expulsion of women from industrial jobs.

Carrol

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the photos were commissioned by the u.s. government, a hold over from the 
public works program (WPA? was it?), part of the u.s propaganda effort. 
There's an original Rosie the Riveter who was photographed. I'm familiar 
with these because I created some blog decisions for a labor guy many years 
ago. We were going to use the labor photography of Earl Dotter, sprinkling 
in some of the LoC photos because Earl's photos, while stunning, weren't 
always the right aspect ratio for a blog.

here's the original photo:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosie_the_Riveter_(Vultee)_DS.jpg>http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosie_the_Riveter_(Vultee)_DS.jpg 

the article at the library of congress was interesting:
<http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/rosie.html>http://www.loc.gov/rr/prog
ram/journey/rosie.html 

At 03:23 AM 6/26/2012, Ismail Lagardien wrote:


>I would like to hear people's views on these technically marvelous 
>photographs. There is a great worker angle here.
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>http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/4x5-kodachromes/
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>Ismail Lagardien
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