Encyclopedia Dubuque
"Encyclopedia Dubuque is the online authority for all things Dubuque, written by the people who know the city best.”
Marshall Cohen—researcher and producer, CNN
Affiliated with the Local History Network of the State Historical Society of Iowa, and the Iowa Museum Association.
Rosie, the Riveter in Dubuque
ROSIE, the Riveter in Dubuque. Rosie, the Riveter was a drawing which symbolized women who kept factories operating during WORLD WAR II. In 1942 "Rosie" did not have a name when she was created by the American artist J. Howard Miller. The poster was called “We Can Do It!” It is thought to be a part of the Westinghouse Electric Corp.’s wartime production campaign to recruit workers. The poster depicted a woman in a red bandanna with her bent arm flexed, rolling up her shirtsleeve. Miller may have based his picture on a United Press International photograph of a young female war worker, Naomi Parker, at Alameda Naval Air Station in California.