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Rosie the Riveter Resources

The City of Richmond's Rosie the Riveter Memorial honors American Women's labor contributions to WWII and specifically honors women who worked at the Richmond Kaiser shipyards. The first of the Memorial annual newsletters was published by the Committee in early 1997 and is available by request from Rosie the Riveter Memorial Committee, 2544 Barrett Ave., Richmond, CA 94804. The Committee distributed a Request for Qualifications to West Coast artists in the Fall of 1997 and this publication is also available upon request.

 Richmond, CA
Elected Officials

Gayle McLaughlin
Mayor

Ludmyrna Lopez 
Vice Mayor

Nathaniel Bates Councilmember

Tom Butt
Councilmember 

Jeff Ritterman
Councilmember

Jim Rogers
Councilmember

Maria Viramontes Councilmember

 Rosie the Riveter
Memorial Committee

Lois Boyle
Myrtle Braxton
Tom Butt
Alex Evans
Virginia Finlay
Donna Graves (Project Director)
Joe Green
DEmanuel Grosse
Steve Gilford
Don Hardison
Diane Hedler
Malcolm Lubliner
Tom Mitchell
David Moore
Jeff Nathanson
Tony Norris
Alex Peter
Donna Powers (Chairperson)
Virginia Rigney
Kathleen Rupley
Leon Sun
Jesse Washington

A partial listing of resources available to those researching this area of history includes:

HISTORICAL REPORTS

New WWII/Home Front Oral Histories >>

Liberty Ships and Victory Ships, America's Lifeline in War
National Park Service's Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans >>

"ROSIE RE-RIVETED IN PUBLIC MEMORY:  A Rhetorical Study of WWII Shipyard Childcare in Richmond and the 1946-1957 Campaign to Preserve Public Supported Childcare" by Amina Hassan (26.8 MB Acrobat .PDF)

Historical Report- Record of KAISER'S RICHMOND SHIPYARDS with special emphasis on SHIPYARD NO. 3, RICHMOND, CA (878 KB Acrobat .PDF)

World War II and the American Home Front
(4.78 MB .PDF on the NPS website)

Nystrom Neighborhood Report by Architectural Resources Group (ARG) May 2004
(923 KB .PDF on the NPS website)

Kaiser Permanente Field Hospital Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places
(814 KB .PDF on the NPS website)

Maritime Child Development Center Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places
(715 KB .PDF on the NPS website)

Pullman Child Development Center Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places
(732 KB .PDF on the NPS website)

RosiesFeasibility Study - Rosie the Riveter WWII/Home Front
(on the National Park Service website)
pages 1-14: Contents Executive Summary Location Study Authorization Background
pages 15-30: Background (continued) The Rosie the Riveter Memorial Project Significant Interpretive Themes Theme-Related Sites in Richmond, California
pages 31-32: Maps 2 and 3 - Proposed Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park Features
pages 33-40: Historic and Current Images
pages 41-50: Historic and Current Images
pages 51-76: Theme-Related Sites (continued) Significance of Richmond in Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front Themes National Significance of the Story and the Sites Suitability Determination Feasibility Determination Public Interest and Support Management Alternatives Environmental Compliance Public Involvement Projected National Historical Park Operations and Cost Estimates References
pages 77-82: Attachment A. Article in Fortune Magazine: "Richmond Took a Beating"
pages 83-91: Attachment B. Letter: Forest City Development Re: Ford Point Visitor Center Attachment C. Resolution: City of Richmond Supporting a National Historic Site Attachment D. Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Attachment E. Letters of Endorsement From Credentialed Historians
pages 92-108: Attachment E. Letters of Endorsement (cont.) Attachment F. Study Authorization Appreciation, Study Team and Consultants

FILM

Please go to the website of Clarity Films for info on the award winning film, "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

For further reading:

Bowman, Constance and Clara Marie Allen. Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999).

Colman, Penny. Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II (NY: Crown Publishers, 1995).

Gluck, Sherna. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War and Social Change (Boston: Twayne, 1987).

"Good Work Sister! Women Shipyard Workers of World War II: An Oral History" (video). Northwest Women's History Project (PO Box 5629, Portland, OR, 97228), 1982.

Honey, Maureen. Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda During WWII (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984).

Johnson, Marilynn S. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993).

Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson. To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, 1910-1963 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

Wise, Nancy Baker and Christy. A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994).

Wollenberg, Charles. Photographing the Second Gold Rush: Dorothea Lange and the Bay Area at War, 1941-45 (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1995).

National Women's History Project: 707-838-6000. They have a full bibliography and catalogue available upon request. Web site: http://www.legacy98.org/

For additional online resources, please go to the Rosie Links Page