--- title: Rosie the Riveter History: See 15 WWII Photos of Women Working description: Celebrate International Women's Day with 15 stunning portraits of women at work canonical: https://time.com/4232850/see-amazing-photos-of-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-women-of-world-war-ii/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-08T12:00:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:31.163Z article:section: History og:title: Rosie the Riveter History: See 15 WWII Photos of Women Working og:description: Celebrate International Women's Day with 15 stunning portraits of women at work og:url: https://time.com/4232850/see-amazing-photos-of-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-women-of-world-war-ii/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt335ef3448b9bd766/69887e95cd1bbad1796ff870/160222-wwii-women-working-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: FSA Photograph from the Library of Congress og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rosie the Riveter History: See 15 WWII Photos of Women Working twitter:description: Celebrate International Women's Day with 15 stunning portraits of women at work twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt335ef3448b9bd766/69887e95cd1bbad1796ff870/160222-wwii-women-working-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Amazing Photos of the Real 'Rosie the Riveter' Women of World War II > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Mar 8, 2016 12:00 PM UTC  Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in California, June 1942\. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer for the Farm Security Administration. Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in California, June 1942\. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Mar 8, 2016 12:00 PM UTC The famous World War II propaganda image of ‘Rosie the Riveter’ may have been directly inspired by women like Norman Rockwell model Mary Doyle Keefe, who [died](http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/mary-doyle-keefe-rosie-the-riveter-inspiration-dead-at-92-20150423) in 2015, and [actual riveter Rose Monroe](http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/02/us/famed-riveter-in-war-effort-rose-monroe-dies-at-77.html). But Rosie’s enduring power was the result of her universality. As America’s men were called away to fight in World War II, women filled their industrial jobs as never before. When the federal government launched a plan to streamline the entire American workforce for maximum efficiency in 1942, the White House [said ](http://time.com/vault/issue/1942-04-27/page/13/) it “definitely includes woman power.” These photos are just a few of the [hundreds](http://loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/) that were taken by photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information in the years leading up to and during World War II. Their earlier work was focused on preserving a picture of American rural life as the nation struggled through the Depression— some of the most iconic images of the Depression were taken under the auspices of the FSA—but by the time the U.S. joined the war, their new goal was to show the world what it looked like when the nation mobilized for war. The unit lost its funding midway through the war, but the images its photographers had already managed to create help shape a picture of what it looks like when all hands—regardless of gender—pitch in for a larger cause. As the world marks International Women’s Day on Tuesday, an event that [originated](http://ti.me/1TIzl8c) with women workers, they’re also a vivid and striking reminder of the importance of that history.  Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in California, June 1942\. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif., October 1942\. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif, October 1942\. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Chicago and North Western Railway Company, Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa, April 1943\. Photographed by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee, February 1943\. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Electronics technician, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio, December 1941\. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  "Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Tex. Mildred Webb, an NYA trainee at the base, is learning to operate a cutting machine in the Assembly and Repair Department. After about eight weeks as an apprentice she will be eligible for a civil service job in the capacity for which she has been trained, August 1942\. Photographed by Howard R. Hollem for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Women war workers, Ohio, circa 1942\. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Chicago and North Western Railway Company, Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two children, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper, Clinton, Iowa. April 1943\. Photographed by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress ![War production workers at the Vilter \[Manufacturing\] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 24, filing small parts. Her husband and brother are in the armed service. February 1943. Photographed by Howard R. Hol](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d4b69c5a33200dd/69887e850b72e3845b6e83b3/160222-wwii-women-working-10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp) War production workers at the Vilter \[Manufacturing\] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 24, filing small parts. Her husband and brother are in the armed service. February 1943\. Photographed by Howard R. Hollem for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Tex. Her husband is a flight instructor. August 1942\. Photographed by Howard R. Hollem for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" (A-31) dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee, February 1943\. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies, June 1942\. Photographed by David Bransby for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Tex., October 1942\. Photographed by Howard R. Hollem for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress  Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and North Western Railway Company, Clinton, Iowa, April 1943\. Photographed by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. 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