Radium girls

Radium Girls Movie Poster

'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.

May 23. Radium girls

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

Radium Girls - 1928 cartoon

Answers by Pollyanna Eyler, BYU Radium Girls dramature

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.

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