This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Irene Haskell Rosie the Riveter who helped build B 29s
Irene Letourneau once Irene Haskell joined Boeing Wichita after Pearl Harbor. She describes women drilling rivets for B 29s, enduring a hostile coworker, earning 1.19 an hour, and nightly 10 hour shifts. Postwar she raised a family and later shared her story with a national park project. Her son Ron highlighted her tale to the Rosie the Riveter Memorial effort.
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Wichita
Irene Haskell
Pearl Harbor
Irene
Rosie
Boeing
America
Irene Letourneau
Argonia High School
Guadalcanal
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Normandy
Western Union
Melba
Franklin Letourneau
Wellington
Ron
Colorado
History Channel
Rosie the
Department of the Interior
Home Front National Historical Park
Richmond
Calif
Memorial
Memorial Park
Lions Club