This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from an original 1943 patriotic poster featuring a strong female factory worker making the famous statement; “We Can Do It.”
The vibrant colors and detail of this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a great piece of history.
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
The 13"x19" and 24”x 36” formats are excellent image sizes that look great as a stand-alone piece of art, or as a grouped visual statement. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online. The 24”x36” size has a 1” border.
A great vintage print for your home, shop, or business!
WE CAN DO IT POSTER
"We Can Do It!" is an American World War II wartime poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost female worker morale.
The poster was little seen during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s, and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do It!" but also called "Rosie the Riveter" after the iconic figure of a strong female war production worker. The poster is one of the ten most-requested images at the National Archives and Records Administration.
After its rediscovery, observers often assumed that the image was used as a call to inspire women workers to join the war effort. However, during the war, the image was strictly internal to Westinghouse, displayed only during February 1943, and was not for recruitment, but to encourage the women who were already-hired to work harder.
After seeing the “We Can Do It” image on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine in 1994, Geraldine Hoff Doyle mistakenly said that she was the subject of the poster. Doyle thought that she had also been captured in a wartime photograph of a woman factory worker, and she innocently assumed that this photo inspired Miller's poster.
The real subject of Norman Rockwell’s iconic “Rosie The Riveter” painting was 19-year-old Mary Doyle, a 19-year-old Vermont resident, who was a telephone operator near where Rockwell lived, not a riveter.
Conflating Geraldine Hoff Doyle as "Rosie the Riveter," many organizations honored her as the symbol of the hard-working women who supported the great civilian production effort of WWII. However, in 2015, the woman in the wartime photograph was identified as then 20-year-old Naomi Parker, working in early 1942 before Doyle had graduated from high school. Doyle's notion that the photograph inspired the poster cannot be proved or disproved, so neither Doyle nor Parker can be confirmed as the model for "We Can Do It!"
