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Radium Girls: The Glow in the Dark Women Who Changed Everything

No One Saw It Coming

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Radium Girls: Glamour and Hazard

This chapter explores the allure and consequences faced by young women known as the radium girls, who worked with hazardous glow-in-the-dark paint during the mid-1910s. It focuses on Grace Fryer, highlighting her experiences and the societal context that shaped the opportunities and dangers for working-class women at the time.

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