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Original
This one's already a featured picture.
Reason
I stumbled across this picture and was stunned, just stunned by it. It's a Featured Picture on Commons, and it really ought to be featured here, too. It's nice, big, full color photo from 1942, illustrating a pivotal component (and a cultural icon) of America's war effort in World War II, Rosie the Riveter, the women of America's work force. We already have Image:Rosie the Riveter.jpg (the famous "We Can Do It" propaganda) as a featured picture, and this compliments it, wonderfully showing the people the ad was illustrating. Again, just a stunning photograph.
Proposed caption
Rosie the Riveter was a name applied to thousands of women who replaced men in the factories on the United States home front during World War II. Here, a metal lathe operator machines parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas.
Articles this image appears in
Rosie the Riveter, War effort, Home front during World War II, and others
Creator
Howard R. Hollem, as an official work of the U.S. Government
  • Her eyes are open, as her pupil can be seen. This picture is from 1940, so I'm not sure if somebody should attempt to do better. Of the qualities of this picture, the most prominent are its historicity and its detail. Puddyglum 21:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. In response to the comment, I note that the lathe article doesn't appear to currently have any photos of a worker using a lathe, and this image might be suitable to illustrate that article. Spikebrennan 21:10, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:WomanFactory1940s.jpg MER-C 03:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]