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In February 2015, Kimble interviewed the Parker sisters, known as Naomi Fern Fraley (Parker) and Ada Wyn Morford, aged 93 and 91 respectively, and found that they had known for five years about the incorrect identification of the photo, and had been rebuffed in their attempt to correct the historical
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professor James J. Kimble had become interested in the poster, which had become an icon of the feminist movement. He tracked down the original photo and confirmed that it was credited to Naomi Parker in 1942. When he tracked down Parker in 2015 to show her the photo, she still had the original
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newspaper clipping from 1942. Kimble was certain that Parker was the woman in the photo and considered her to be the strongest candidate behind the inspiration for the poster, but noted that Miller did not leave any writings which could identify his model.
44: 243:, in 1921. She is the third of eight children to Joseph Parker and Esther Leis. Her father was a mining engineer and her mother was a homemaker. The family moved across the country from New York to California, living in 649: 356: 391:. She was married three times, first to Joseph Blankenship (divorced), second to John Muhlig (d. 1971), and third to Charles Fraley (d. 1998), whom she married in 1979. In February 2017 she moved to the 216:
was initially credited as the subject of the iconic poster, a popular photograph of Fraley operating a machine tool at the Naval Air Station is now believed to be the inspiration.
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and spotted her photograph from 1942. She was surprised to find that the caption credited the model as
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in a worker morale campaign. It is presumed that the newspaper photo was the source of his image.
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area before moving into an assisted care home there later that year.
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Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park
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who is considered the most likely model for the iconic "
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Naomi Parker

Tulsa, Oklahoma
Longview, Washington
Rosie the Riveter
We Can Do It!
American war worker
We Can Do It!
World War II
Naval Air Station Alameda
Geraldine Hoff Doyle
Palm Springs, California

Tulsa, Oklahoma
Alameda
attack on Pearl Harbor
Naval Air station
encyclopedic tone
guide to writing better articles
Learn how and when to remove this message
We Can Do It!

We Can Do It!
Pratt & Whitney
shaper
J. Howard Miller
Westinghouse
Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park
Geraldine Hoff Doyle
Seton Hall University

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