User:Knope7/sandbox/ Naomi Parker-Farley

Naomi Parker-Fraley is an American woman thought to be the inspiration for the image of Rosie the Riveter depicted by J. Howard Miller in 1943.

In the 1980s, Geraldine Hoff Doyle, a factory worker from Michigan, believed she saw herself in an uncaptioned reprint of the Rosie the Riverter inspiration photograph.

It wasn't until 2009 when Parker-Fraley discovered she might be the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter. Accompanyied by her sister,  Ada Wyn Parker-Loy, to a reunion at the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park, Parker Fraley noticed a photograph of herself from 1942. The photograph was displayed as the likely inspiration for the Rosie the Riveter poster, however, it incorrectly identified the young-woman as Geraldine. The image had been widely distributed in 1942 in newspapers and magazines, then correctly identifying Parker as the subject.

Seton Hall University communications professor James J. Kimble has championed the idea that Parker Fraley is the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter.