Workers unite against dangerous factory conditions in "Radium Girls," a new show opening at The Empty Space. The play is ...

OTTAWA, Ill. — Organizers say they now have nearly half the money they need to erect a monument to memorialize the “Radium Girls,” who once painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at a factory in Ottawa.

In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen. Their job was to paint ...

The March 14 Scribbler column asked whether Lancaster women painted radium on watch dials. The answer: Yes, they did, at two watch manufacturing plants. But the Scribbler wants to know more before he ...

State radiation regulators reacted to the Scribbler’s March inquiry about two local watch-manufacturing companies that used radioactive materials by initiating a comprehensive investigation of the ...

The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and clock faces with luminous paint. The numbers on the wristwatches and clock dials were so tiny, the workers needed a very ...

One of the applications for this is watches with luminous dials that you can see in the nighttime. Who went to work as dial painters for these watches? Well, they tended to be young girls. Records ...

In the 1920s, working-class women were hired to paint radium onto glowing watch dials — and told to sharpen the brush with their lips. Dozens... Mae Keane, One Of The Last 'Radium Girls,' Dies At 107 ...