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Esther Bielmeier was born on October 30, 1900. During the Great War Esther and sister Nora hired into the Shipyard as rivet heaters, passers and catchers. The women took turns heating the rivets, and tossing the heated rivets to the catchers who delivered them to the male riveter. Esther worked at the Shipyard from 1918 to 1920. In the summer of 1919 this photograph was taken of Esther operating a rivet heater. This photograph is the inspiration for the Memorial Plaza's centerpiece statue created at Creo Industrial Arts by Sculptor James Sellen Guerci in 2009. The artist felt it was important to capture the authenticity of her appearance int eh photograph. Esther passed away on Mother's Day of 1989.

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