![]() They were the Radium Girls and they were doomed. Painting the dials of watches so they would glow in the dark for soldiers during the war then after for consumers. As working class girls and women during the 1910s and 1920s they joined a new bustling form of work, fashionable and better paid than anything else. The women above worked in the first case for a company called the United States Radium Corporation and in the second case at Radium Dial. ![]() Catherine Wolfe Donohue, Charlotte Nevins Purcell, sisters Frances Glacinski O’Connell and Marguerite Glacinski, Helen Munch, Inez Corcoran Vallat, Margaret Peg Looney, Marie Becker Rossiter, Mary Duffy Robinson, Mary Ellen Ella Cruse, Mary Vicini Tonielli, Olive West Witt and Pearl Payne in Ottawa, Illinois, USA. Sisters Albina Maggia Larice, Amelie Mollie Maggia and Quinta Maggia Mcdonald, Edna Bolz Hussman, Eleanor Ella Eckert, Genevieve Smith and her sister Josephine Smith, Grace Fryer, Hazel Vincent Kuser, Helen Quinlan, Irene Corby la Porte, Irene Rudolph, Jane Jennie Stocker, Katherine Schaub, Mae Cubberley Canfield, Marguerite Carlough and her sister Sarah Carlough Maillefer in Newark and Orange, New Jersey, USA. ![]() Workers would often lick the paintbrush to achieve a finer point - directly ingesting the Radium. ![]() ![]() Women painting alarm clock faces with Radium in 1932, Ingersoll factory, January 1932. ![]()
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