20th Century World Wars Poster: We Can Do It

20th Century World Wars Poster: We Can Do It

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J Howard Miller was a graphic artist employed by the Westinghouse company and made this poster as a work incentive. The poster was only displayed for a short period of time in February of 1943.  The photo was taken at the Pratt Whitney Aerospace factory at the Alameda Naval Air Station in California.  The photograph was of a then 20 year old woman named Naomi Parker Fraley, a photograph of her appeared in the Pittsburg Press in July 1942.  J Howard Miller lived and worked in the Pittsburg area and used the public image from the press in his poster. The poster during the time was not that popular and was lost to history.  It was rediscovered as iconic in the 1980s especially with the feminist movement.  The image appeared on the cover of the Smithsonian magazine in 1994 and as an offical US Stamp in 1999.  It has been used by politicians, corporations, artists, and the general public ever since.  In 2010 a woman by the name of Gereldine Hoff Doyle passed away and claimed to have been th

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