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Ottawa illinois radium. She is the only physical memorial to the radium girls otherwise known as. In her left a wilted tulip. Unfortunately the glow came from radium and the company encouraged the women to keep their brush tips sharp by licking them. A century later the factory that poisoned the radium girls is still a superfund site in the 1920s young women worked in an ottawa illinois factory painting radioactive glow in the dark.
Most of the women were sick with anemia sarcomas rotting. In the 1920s hundreds of young women worked at the radium dial company in ottawa illinois putting tiny strokes of glowing paint on itty bitty wristwatch dials. Began operations in ottawa illinois in the late 1910s. Much of the rest was thrown in what at the time was the city dump the last area that needs to be remediated.
A lifelong resident of ottawa she attended the towns grade and high schools and married vincent lloyd vallat on 20 october 1926. In her right hand she holds a small paintbrush. She stands atop a clock face that seems to portend her fate. She was among the last of her kind but longevity in this club was a mixed blessing.
Radium poisoning took the lives of perhaps thousands of female factory workers many in ottawa illinois in the last century. Five of the women challenged their employer in a case that established the right of individual workers who contract occupational. Employees of both radium dial and later luminous processes used radium containing luminous glow in the. The women who had been told the paint was harmless ingested deadly amounts of radium by licking their paintbrushes to sharpen them.
In 1986 documentary film maker carole langer made a film that covered the plight of the so called radium girls who worked in the watch dial industry. When the first clock factory in ottawa radium dial was demolished more than a decade prior some of the rubble was used as fill for other lots around the city. Ottawa is also served by two local radio stations wcmy am at 1430 and wrkx fm at 953. Inez goes down in history as the first lead case in the illinois dial painters collective lawsuit and as the woman who first won a judgment in the state on the poisoning of the radium girls.
Ottawa is also served by the newstribune of la salle illinois.
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