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 In 2015 James J. Kimble obtained another photo in the series which identified the woman in the photo as Naomi Parker. This does not, however, conclusively prove that the woman in the ''poster'' is Parker.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42787869</ref>
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 [[File:We_can_do_it_origin.jpg|1942 photograph of Naomi Parker.|thumb]]
-It is unclear who is the subject of the picture used to develop the poster.  Until 2015 it was generally assumed to be Geraldine Hoff Doyle.  Doyle saw the picture on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine in 1994, and said that she was the subject of the poster. Doyle thought that she had also been captured in a wartime photograph of a woman factory worker. Conflating her as "Rosie the Riveter", Doyle was honored by many organizations including the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame.  Doyle only worked at the factory for two weeks before quitting.  As a cellist she feared a hand injury which could impact here career.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-geraldine-hoff-doyle-20101231-story.html</ref>  Use of the poster's image as a symbol of female empowerment was mocked by [[anti-feminist]]s once her short tenure at the factory came to light.
+It is unclear who is the subject of the poster.  Until 2015 it was generally assumed to be Geraldine Hoff Doyle.  Doyle saw the picture on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine in 1994, and claimed to be the subject. Doyle thought that she had also been captured in a wartime photograph of a woman factory worker. Conflating her as "Rosie the Riveter", Doyle was honored by many organizations including the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame.  Doyle only worked at the factory for two weeks before quitting.  As a cellist she feared a hand injury which could impact here career.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-geraldine-hoff-doyle-20101231-story.html</ref>  Use of the poster's image as a symbol of female empowerment was mocked by [[anti-feminist]]s once her short tenure at the factory came to light.
 In 2015 James J. Kimble obtained another photo in the series which identified the woman in the photo as Naomi Parker. This does not, however, conclusively prove that the woman in the ''poster'' is Parker.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42787869</ref>

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 After its rediscovery, observers often assumed that the image was always used as a call to inspire women workers to join the war effort. However, during the war the image was strictly internal to Westinghouse, displayed only during February 1943, and was not for recruitment but to exhort already-hired women to work harder. People have seized upon the uplifting attitude and apparent message to remake the image into many different forms, including self empowerment, campaign promotion, advertising, and parodies.
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 [[File:We_can_do_it_origin.jpg|1942 photograph of Naomi Parker.|thumb]]
-It is unclear who is depicted on the poster.  Until 2015 it was generally assumed to be Geraldine Hoff Doyle.  Doyle saw the picture on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine in 1994, and said that she was the subject of the poster. Doyle thought that she had also been captured in a wartime photograph of a woman factory worker. Conflating her as "Rosie the Riveter", Doyle was honored by many organizations including the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame.  Doyle only worked at the factory for two weeks before quitting.  As a cellist she feared a hand injury which could impact here career.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-geraldine-hoff-doyle-20101231-story.html</ref>  Use of the poster's image as a symbol of female empowerment was mocked by [[anti-feminist]]s once her short tenure at the factory came to light.
+It is unclear who is the subject of the picture used to develop the poster.  Until 2015 it was generally assumed to be Geraldine Hoff Doyle.  Doyle saw the picture on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine in 1994, and said that she was the subject of the poster. Doyle thought that she had also been captured in a wartime photograph of a woman factory worker. Conflating her as "Rosie the Riveter", Doyle was honored by many organizations including the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame.  Doyle only worked at the factory for two weeks before quitting.  As a cellist she feared a hand injury which could impact here career.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-geraldine-hoff-doyle-20101231-story.html</ref>  Use of the poster's image as a symbol of female empowerment was mocked by [[anti-feminist]]s once her short tenure at the factory came to light.
 In 2015 James J. Kimble obtained another photo in the series which identified the woman in the photo as Naomi Parker. This does not, however, conclusively prove that the woman in the ''poster'' is Parker.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42787869</ref>

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 [[We Can Do It]] is an American World War II wartime poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost female worker morale.
-The poster was little seen during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do It!" but also erroneously called [[Rosie the Riveter]] after the iconic figure of a female war production worker. The "We Can Do It!" image was used to promote feminism and other political issues beginning in the 1980s. The image made the cover of the Smithsonian magazine in 1994 and was fashioned into a US first-class mail stamp in 1999. It was incorporated in 2008 into campaign materials for several American politicians, and was reworked by an artist in 2010 to celebrate the first woman becoming prime minister of Australia. The poster is one of the ten most-requested images at the National Archives and Records Administration.
+The poster was little seen during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do It!" but also erroneously called ''Rosie the Riveter'' after the iconic figure of a female war production worker. The "We Can Do It!" image was used to promote feminism and other political issues beginning in the 1980s. The image made the cover of the Smithsonian magazine in 1994 and was fashioned into a US first-class mail stamp in 1999. It was incorporated in 2008 into campaign materials for several American politicians, and was reworked by an artist in 2010 to celebrate the first woman becoming prime minister of Australia. The poster is one of the ten most-requested images at the National Archives and Records Administration.
 After its rediscovery, observers often assumed that the image was always used as a call to inspire women workers to join the war effort. However, during the war the image was strictly internal to Westinghouse, displayed only during February 1943, and was not for recruitment but to exhort already-hired women to work harder. People have seized upon the uplifting attitude and apparent message to remake the image into many different forms, including self empowerment, campaign promotion, advertising, and parodies.

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 == Depiction ==
-[[File:We_can_do_it_origin.jpg|1942 photograph of Naomi Parker.]]
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 It is unclear who is depicted on the poster.  Until 2015 it was generally assumed to be Geraldine Hoff Doyle.  Doyle saw the picture on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine in 1994, and said that she was the subject of the poster. Doyle thought that she had also been captured in a wartime photograph of a woman factory worker. Conflating her as "Rosie the Riveter", Doyle was honored by many organizations including the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame.  Doyle only worked at the factory for two weeks before quitting.  As a cellist she feared a hand injury which could impact here career.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-geraldine-hoff-doyle-20101231-story.html</ref>  Use of the poster's image as a symbol of female empowerment was mocked among [[anti-feminist]]s once her short tenure at the factory came to light.