Radium girls

Radium Girls - 1928 cartoon

There are a range of diseases, traumas and skeletal markers that can occur regularly with certain types of occupations. One historic example is called Tailor’s Notches. These are small indentations…

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In 1922, a bank teller named Grace Fryer became concerned when her teeth began to loosen and fall out for no discernible reason. Her troubles were

'I was asked to paint dials," 15-year-old Katherine Schaub wrote in the spring of 1917, just as the United States was entering the First World War.

There are a range of diseases, traumas and skeletal markers that can occur regularly with certain types of occupations. One historic example is called Tailor’s Notches. These are small indentations…

May 23. Radium girls

Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves lucky--until they start suffering from a mysterious illness. As the corporations try to cover up a shocking secret, these shining girls suddenly find themselves at the center of a deadly scandal.

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Stories from around the world about the 1938 Radium Dial litigation in Ottawa Illinois

In 1917, glow-in-the-dark watches were all the rage. But the girls who painted them with radioactive paint weren’t told how dangerous it was.

Answers by Pollyanna Eyler, BYU Radium Girls dramature

Charlotte Nevins began working at Radium Dial when she was only 16-years-old, despite the company's policy that required employees to be at least 18. She was far from the youngest girl hired, and ability to paint tiny numbers was more vital than adulthood toward gaining employment. As one of the younger girls working in the dial painting studio, Charlotte was more likely than her older friends, Catherine Donohue and Pearl Payne, to join in the silliness of using the glow-in-the-dark paint as…

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Stories from around the world about the 1938 Radium Dial litigation in Ottawa Illinois

Stories from around the world about the 1938 Radium Dial litigation in Ottawa Illinois