Geraldine Doyle 1924-2010 Model for WW2 poster "We Can Do It"

[jlp]

Geraldine Doyle (born Geraldine Hoff July 31, 1924, Inkster, Michigan;
died December 26, 2010, Lansing, Michigan) was the real-life model for
the World War II era We Can Do It posters often confused with Rosie
the Riveter. As of 2005, she lived in Lansing, Michigan.
Doyle's father, Cornelious Hoff, was an electrical contractor who died
of pneumonia when she was 10 years old. Her mother, Augusta, was a
composer stricken with scoliosis. After graduating from high school in
Ann Arbor, Doyle helped the American effort in World War II by working
at a local factory in 1942. It was there that she met graphic artist
J. Howard Miller, who used her portrait on his iconic poster.
In 1942, the 17 year-old Geraldine spent a week working in a Montana
factory pressing metal as an early replacement worker for men who had
gone off to war. During her brief tenure, a wire photographer took a
picture of her she soon forgot. That image - re-imagined by J. Howard
Miller while working for the Westinghouse War Production Co-Ordinating
Committee - would soon become iconic both for the war effort and for
the forever changed society it fostered.
Geraldine Doyle didn't know she was the model for Rosie until 1984,
when she came across the 1942 photograph in Modern Maturity Magazine.
By 1944, a lot of women were working in factories and plants, instead
of homes. Rosie the Riveter appeared on a postage stamp, part of a
World War II series produced by the U.S. Postal Service, in 1992.

[KingDaevid]

...coincidentially, the cover of the current issue of Utne Reader
shows a Marge Simpson cartoon in the "We Can Do It" pose...

[Bill Schenley]

> Geraldine Doyle (born Geraldine Hoff July
> 31, 1924, Inkster, Michigan; died December
> 26, 2010, Lansing, Michigan) was the real-life
> model for the World War II era We Can Do

> It posters.

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