Welcome to the Museum of Women of WWII

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Women at Home

Women in Public

Working Women

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Mr. Fitzpatrick

Hello. I’m the House A Social Studies teacher at Hug High School.

My focus is in World and U.S. History.

Working Women

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Women in Public

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http://www.ohiowarstories.org/wp/?cat=91

Betty Stagg Turner

Women like Betty Stagg Turner became actual pilots during WWII. They were not allowed to fly in combat but did work as test pilots and transporters. This allowed more men to fly combat missions.

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http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/tps/step2/s_s/exhibits.shtml

Women Photographers

Therese Bonney was a wartime photographer who lived in both the U.S. and Europe. Her pictures during WWII brought to the American people what life was like for those who were not fighting in Europe. Many of her pictures focused on women and children.

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http://boredombegetsguilt.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html

Rosie the Riveter

Although this poster was created by J. Howard Miller before the term Rosie the Riveter was popular, it later becomes an icon of the women who worked in factories in place of the men who left for war.

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http://www.womeninwwii.com/marines/womenmarines.asp

Free a Marine

During WWII there was a movement to involve women in the military doing jobs that men typically would do, allowing these men to go off and fight on the front lines.

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http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/2008/05/photo-of-the-17.html

Women and Aircraft

Women such as this one, worked extensively on aircraft during WWII. This gave many women skills that they otherwise wouldn’t have had to retain jobs in specific industries.

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http://www.explorepahistory.com/displaygallery.php?gallery_id=60&bcolor=tan&list=1

Women on the Assembly Line

This picture shows women on a fuse assembly line in Philadelphia, PA in 1941.

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www.peggeorge.com/dothejobheleftbehind.jpg

The Job HE Left Behind

This poster created during WWII was made to motivate women to get out of the house and fill jobs that men were leaving as they were enlisting and being drafted. The poster was to evoke a feeling of pride for the U.S. and the men who were fighting.

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http://www.noaa.gov/blackhistory/2007/worldwars.html

Women in the Factories

This picture is a prime example of women replacing men in factories. This women, Bertha Stallworth was 21 at the time. This picture also shows how racial barriers were starting to break down during WWII.

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Resourceful Women

During WWII, it became a woman’s responsibility to gather items such as rubber that the government or military could use toward making wartime products.

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http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~cg3/pageone.html

Victory Garden

Along with men, women spent a lot of time tending to victory gardens. These were relatively big gardens that people could sustain themselves on the food it grew, thus saving time, money and man power.

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http://danceandshine.com/World_War_II/cookbooks.html

Rationing in the Kitchen

Grandma’s Wartime Guide was a cookbook and guide to help women with rationing on a daily basis. The book helped women figure out how much of a scarce item you could use and how far you could stretch its use.

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http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~cg3/pageone.html

Make This Pledge

To try and keep food prices down and avoid inflation the government put out posters to persuade women not to buy black market items or pay black market prices. The poster here has the actual pledge.

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http://www.womeninwwii.com/fashion/1940sfashion.asp

Women’s Fashion

Even though materials were running low during the war, women and men were encouraged to buy clothing to keep the fashion industry and the economy going strong. With Paris falling to the Germans, Hollywood became the fashion capital during the war.

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http://www.wuftfm.org/The_Caravan_Playlists/Playlists_for_02-23-08.html

Women’s Jazz Bands

In the entertainment world many musicians left there fields to fulfill their duty to the country. This void was filled from what had been becoming popular, women jazz bands such as International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675763

Women’s Professional Baseball League

During the height of WWII America’s past time was put on hold. Many of Baseballs biggest stars enlisted in the military, leaving a void that would be filled with women. The league ran from 1943- 1954.

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http://edsitement.neh.gov/LaunchPad/Launch-FlyGirls.html

Traditional Roles

Not all roles that women had during WWII were unconventional. Nursing which traditionally was a women’s job saw an increase in enlistment in order to help in the war effort.