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Welcome to the Museum of Women of WWII

Welcome to the Museum of Women of WWII. Working Women. Women at Home. Curator’s Office. Women in Public. Mr. Fitzpatrick. Hello. I’m the House A Social Studies teacher at Hug High School. My focus is in World and U.S. History. Return to Museum Entrance. Working Women.

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Welcome to the Museum of Women of WWII

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  1. Welcome to the Museum of Women of WWII Working Women Women at Home Curator’s Office Women in Public

  2. Mr. Fitzpatrick Hello. I’m the House A Social Studies teacher at Hug High School. My focus is in World and U.S. History. Return to Museum Entrance

  3. Working Women Return to Entrance

  4. Women at Home tif Return to Entrance

  5. Women in Public Return to Entrance

  6. 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. http://www.ohiowarstories.org/wp/?cat=91 Return to Room

  7. 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. http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/tps/step2/s_s/exhibits.shtml Return to Room

  8. 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. http://boredombegetsguilt.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html Return to Room

  9. 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. http://www.womeninwwii.com/marines/womenmarines.asp Return to Room

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

  11. Women on the Assembly Line This picture shows women on a fuse assembly line in Philadelphia, PA in 1941. http://www.explorepahistory.com/displaygallery.php?gallery_id=60&bcolor=tan&list=1 Return to Room

  12. 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. www.peggeorge.com/dothejobheleftbehind.jpg Return to Room

  13. 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. http://www.noaa.gov/blackhistory/2007/worldwars.html Return to Room

  14. 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. Ihttp://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/politics/index.html Return to Room

  15. 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. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~cg3/pageone.html Return to Room

  16. 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. http://danceandshine.com/World_War_II/cookbooks.html Return to Room

  17. 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. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~cg3/pageone.html Return to Room

  18. 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. http://www.womeninwwii.com/fashion/1940sfashion.asp Return to Room

  19. 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. http://www.wuftfm.org/The_Caravan_Playlists/Playlists_for_02-23-08.html Return to Room

  20. 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. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675763 Return to Room

  21. 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. http://edsitement.neh.gov/LaunchPad/Launch-FlyGirls.html Return to Room

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