RIP Rosie The Riveter-Model Mary Keefe Died This Week

RIP Rosie The Riveter-Model Mary Keefe Died This Week

We all know the iconic image nicknamed “Rosie the Riveter”  depicting a strong American woman painted by artist Norman Rockwell and appearing on the cover of the Memorial Day edition of the Saturday Evening Post in 1943. Hair tied up in a kerchief to protect it from being seized by factory machinery, lips slicked with 1940’s appropriate red lipstick, arm flexed in a previously masculine pose she became the original image of girl power during World War II.

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