Your Name:
Rosie the Riveter: Icon of Beauty, Brawn and Power
Rosenberg Library, 4th Floor
1. Pick something in the display that really interests you.
2. Draw it below, don’t worry about how you draw – simple shapes and stick figures are fine!
3. What did you think/feel about this piece?
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4. What is the name of the artist who created the image of Rosie the Riveter that is famous?
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5. Why does the original Rosie the Riveter look the way she does? Clothes, hair, gesture—during what world event
was Rosie created? What was her occupation? What does her body gesture show? Please describe:
World Event/Time period: ____________________________________________________________________________
Occupation:________________________________________________________________________________________
Physical Gesture: ____________________________________________________________________________________
6. Go to the case with the text “Activist Rosie” look at the images of Rosie that have been created to represent a
cause. For instance, the way that artist Votan Rodriguez drew "Warrior Wombyn aka Rezzie the Riveter."
His image represents young Native American women as very powerful people.
Think of a cause that is important to you and then think of how you would draw a Rosie that could represent
your cause:
State your cause: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Describe the way a Rosie that represents your cause would look. Describe at least two elements of her appearance:
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Find these Resources on Rosie the Riveter in the CCSF Library
Your will need the barcode on your CCSF ID for articles and ebooks below.
Dunlap, Tiare. "NAOMI PARKER-FRALEY Meet the Real Rosie." People, vol. 86, no. 12, 19 Sept. 2016, p.
90. MasterFILE Premier, Accessed 29 Nov. 2016.
Access Article: On the CCSF Library Webpage, go to Articles & Databases, select
EbscohostSearch keywords: Naomi Parker Fraley
Honey, Maureen. Creating Rosie the Riveter. PDF ed., U of Massachusetts P, 1985.
Access eBook: http://diego.ccsf.edu:80/record=b1215880~S1
"Rosie The LGBT Riveter." Newsweek Global, vol. 162, no. 24, 24 June 2014, pp. 1-8. MasterFileComplete.
Accessed 29 Nov. 2016.
Access Article:
On the CCSF Library Webpage, go to Articles & Databases, select Ebscohost
Search keywords: rosie lgbt riveter
rosie lgbt riveter
Rosie the Riveter. 2001. Screenplay by Eric Sevareid, Columbia River Entertainment.
Access DVD:
In Rosenberg Library on the Ocean campus, go to the 4th floor Media Center, at the desk
ask for the DVD with Call number AV DVD 0166
Check Out These Websites on Rose the Riveter:
Harvey, Sharon, editor. "Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II." Journeys & Crossings,
Library of Congress, 23 Dec. 2015, www.loc.gov.oasys.lib.oxy.edu/rr/program/journey/rosie.html.
Accessed 29 Nov. 2016.
Tamiment Library & Robert F Wagner Labor Archives, editor. The Real Rosie the Riveter Project. New York
University, www.dlib.nyu.edu/rosie/interviews. Accessed 29 Nov. 2016.
"United We Can Win!" Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front, National Park Service,
www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm. Accessed 29 Nov. 2016.