When World War II’s famous “We Can Do It” poster went up 76 years ago Friday, barely anyone saw it. In fact, the feminist emblem began as a poster for the walls of a Pittsburgh-based ...

But a chance visit to the plant by a United Press photographer was to make her one of the most recognisable faces in poster art, now known ... The result was We Can Do It! - a poster encouraging ...

Geraldine Hoff Doyle, a World War II factory worker whose bandana-wearing image in a wire-service photo is said to have been the model for the woman depicted in the 1942 “We Can Do It!” ...

Normal Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" painting, published in May of 1943 (The Saturday Evening Post) The other image is the "We Can Do It" poster. Which initially had little to do with Rosie—and ...

With their mix of art and propaganda ... Howard Miller’s famous 1942 “We Can Do It” poster, there would be a wave of depictions of strong women, but in reality that was not the case ...

The poster of a young woman in a factory uniform and red polka dot head kerchief, her arm flexed to show off her muscle with a speech balloon stating boldly, “We can do it!” was designed to ...

The “We Can Do It!” poster image has been reproduced ... Buck (1983), the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1984) and folk-art carousel horses (1988 and again, with new artwork, in 1995).