On January 20, 2017, less than two years after finallygetting recognition as the woman in the photographthought to be the inspiration for the World War II-era poster girl Rosie the RiveterNaomi Parker Fraley died at the age of 96.
into the 1942 photograph. And after five years of searching, he found the smoking gun, as he calls ita copy of the photograph with the original caption glued on the back. Dated March 1942 at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, it identified Pretty Naomi Parker as the woman at the lathe.
Doubt still remains, however, as to whether the photo of Naomi Parkerwhich was published in Millers hometown newspaper,The Pittsburgh Press, in July 1942wasin fact the inspiration for Millers image. Without confirmation from the artist, who died in 2004, there is only the physical resemblance
All that was beside the point for Naomi Parker Fraley, Kimble believes. I think the most important thing to her was her identity. When theres a photo of you going around that people recognize, and yet somebody elses name is below it, and youre powerless to change thatthats really going to affe
