Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rosie the Riveter Reloaded

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[edit] Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the six million women who worked in the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II while the men (who traditionally performed this work) were fighting in the Pacific and European Theaters. This "character" is now considered a feminist icon in the US, and a herald of women's economic power to come.
Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the six million women who worked in the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II while the men (who traditionally performed this work) were fighting in the Pacific and European Theaters. This "character" is now considered a feminist icon in the US, and a herald of women's economic power to come.
Reason
Some monthes ago I tried to get this image through FPC and it failed, mainly due to my inability to locate and upload a higher resolution version; however it has come to my attention that this new version is higher resolution and better quality. I therefore renominate this image for FP status. I wish to thank User:Pharos for finding and uploading this new version. This nomination is as much mine as it is his.
Articles this image appears in
History of women in the United States, History of feminism, Rosie the Riveter, Female roles in the World Wars, Home front, J. Howard Miller, Geraldine Doyle, Precarious work
Creator
J. Howard Miller, artist employed by Westinghouse, poster used by the War Production Co-ordinating Committee
  • Support as nominator — TomStar81 (Talk) 18:44, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. Helps the articles, good scan. --KFP (talk | contribs) 18:55, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment, I could have sworn this was up for FPC before... maybe on commons? gren グレン 21:44, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Yup, a lower quality version was nominated here, as explained by the nominator above. :) --KFP (talk | contribs) 22:47, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Huh?, you read the nominations? loser :O And support. gren グレン 02:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Very sharp scan. Historic and encyclopedic. Jumping cheese Cont@ct 22:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Flawless scan, assuming that the speckles are halftoning artifacts present in the original poster. The poster could not be more iconic or significant, and deserves to be a FP all the way. Thegreenj 22:28, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Per above. 8thstar 22:47, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support It's all been said…--HereToHelp 23:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Great scan of an iconic image. This is on my office wall! --Bridgecross 01:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Propaganda! Nice find, I was looking for a good scan of this one recently. Support of course. ~ trialsanderrors 02:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Very sharp and pretty much flawless. Duran 03:42, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - It's funny that nobody mentioned the fact that this kind of gesture is considered rough (or even obscene) in some countries. I would never considerer the possibility of hanging such a picture in my office! - Alvesgaspar 07:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Good point...but it's not like she's directing it towards the viewer. Jumping cheese Cont@ct 08:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Bwah ha! I never considered that! She's rolling up her sleeve, of course, the universal symbol of Getting Down to Business. Just a slight change in her fingers and it's a different gesture. Perhaps that's what the artist intended; "I'm gonna build a plane, a ship, and put THIS up Hitler's butt!" --Bridgecross 14:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
      • Not really relevant here though unless it got picked up by a secondary sources, in which case it can be worked into the caption. What's more relevant here is that this is not Rosie the Riveter at all. This is the actual Rosie the Riveter. ~ trialsanderrors 21:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
        • Ya'll gotta learn to take life in broad strokes and umbrella terms, otherwise you'll miss out on lots of life's simpler things. In this case I am using Rosie the Riveter in a broad sense to include most/all of the women who replaced men in the factories. Under this definition the painting does indeed show "a" Rosie, even though it may not actually be "the" Rosie. TomStar81 (Talk) 03:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
          • Don't worry about me missing out on the simpler things in life, "Rosie's" non-Rosie-ness is just something that should be noted in the caption. ~ trialsanderrors 04:16, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
            • I'm confused. Is Rosie a real person (as noted in the article) or a cultural icon? Was the pic what coined the term or is it an illustration of the "Rosie the Riveter" icon. Jumping cheese Cont@ct 11:02, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Per above. --Paul 18:41, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Rosie the Riveter.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 15:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)