The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning beginning in 1917, while they were painting watches with self-luminous paint.  This occurred at three factories in the United States: Orange, New Jersey, Ottawa, Illinois, and Waterbury Connecticut.  The women were assured that the paint was harmless, but that wasn't true, and they ingested deadly amounts of radium.

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Resources:

• Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a Killer Workplace | Britannica 
• Smithsonian displays ore containing radium, United States Radium Corporation (1921) - Newspapers.com™ 
• https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/centennial-radium-forged-report/ 
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5559067/women-radium-victims-offer-selves-for/ 
• Radium Girls: Living Dead Women | Headlines & Heroes (loc.gov) 
• In Her Footsteps: Radium Girls of Ottawa, IL - YouTube 
• The Radium Girls:The Dark Story of America’s... by Moore, Kate (amazon.com) 

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