About the "Rosie Look"

It's simple. We wanted to provide a little interest to the site while at the same time honoring the men and women who brought America through World War II on the home front.

One of the icons of this era was "Rosie the Riveter", who symbolized the "We Can Do It!" spirit of America's women who entered war plants and factories by the millions.

Just as American workers during the war worked long and hard to produce what America needed, today's public sector employees are working hard to produce the online content needed by the citizenry to interact efficiently with their local, state and federal governments.

Therefore, we adopted Rosie as an inspiration, changed her war plant badge to an OSWG button, and you can see the results here.

Developing specific visuals around this theme was made much easier by the availability of photographs and graphics from the National Archives.

 

We started with public domain photographs from the Still Pictures Branch of that agency, and merged them with web and computer-related artwork to bring about a blend of the old and the new into one theme: Web Production.

As you travel throught the OSWG site, we'd like for you to spend some time viewing some of the remarkable photographs we found. In most areas of the the OSWG site where you see an image that includes a photographic element, simply click on that image and you will be able to view both the original photo and more detailed information about it.

At this time, we would like to acknowledge the excellent work done by the men and women of the Still Pictures Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration. Without them, these important historical images would have disappeared long ago.

- the OSWG webteam

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