References

References: Interstitial IV · The Radium Girls

  1. Historic American Buildings Survey, 'United States Radium Corporation, 422-432 Alden Street, Orange, Essex County, NJ,' Library of Congress (HABS NJ-1643).
  2. United States Radium Corporation — Wikipedia.
  3. EPA, 'U.S. Radium Corp. Superfund Site Profile,' United States Environmental Protection Agency (Orange, NJ; cleanup completed 2006).
  4. Claudia Clark, Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935, UNC Press, 1997.
  5. U.S. National Archives, 'The Radium Girls at the National Archives,' The Text Message (records of the litigation).
  6. Wikipedia, 'Grace Fryer.'
  7. Boston University, BU Today (2009). 'Factory Workers Who Fought Back.'
  8. Kate Moore, 'The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women' (Sourcebooks, 2017) - excerpted by the author: 'On April 10, 1917, an 18-year-old woman named Grace Fryer started work as a dial painter at the United States Radium Corporation (USRC) in Orange, New Jersey.'
  9. Claudia Clark, 'Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997) - scholarly history of the U.S. Radium dial-painters' case (Fryer began 1917, aged eighteen).
  10. U.S. National Archives, 'The Radium Girls at the National Archives' (The Text Message blog, 4 Jan 2018) - documents the U.S. Radium litigation records held at NARA.
  11. Grace Fryer — Wikipedia
  12. ArchivesSpace, 'Radium: Grace Fryer et. al. versus United States Radium Corporation lawsuit, 1927 November 14'
  13. EPA, 'U.S. Radium Corp. Superfund Site Profile,' United States Environmental Protection Agency (Orange, NJ).
  14. Mullner, R., Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy, American Public Health Association, 1999.
  15. ORAU, 'Radium Dials,' Oak Ridge Associated Universities Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity.
  16. Rowland, R.E., Radium in Humans: A Review of US Studies, Argonne National Laboratory, ANL/ER-3, 1994.
  17. Kate Moore, The Radium Girls, Sourcebooks, 2017, ch. 2.
  18. EPA Superfund Site Profile: US Radium Corp., Orange, NJ.
  19. Clark C. 'Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935.' University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
  20. ATSDR, 'Toxicological Profile for Radium,' U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1990.
  21. Kate Moore, The Radium Girls, Sourcebooks, 2017.
  22. Kate Moore, The Radium Girls, Sourcebooks, 2017 (the 'Ghost Girls' moniker recurs throughout).
  23. Library of Congress, 'Radium Girls: Living Dead Women,' Headlines & Heroes blog, 2019.
  24. ATSDR, 'Toxicological Profile for Radium,' U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1990 (radium as a calcium analog and 'bone seeker').
  25. ICRP Publication 67, 'Age-Dependent Doses ... from Intake of Radionuclides,' International Commission on Radiological Protection, 1993.
  26. ATSDR, 'Toxicological Profile for Radium,' U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1990 (long skeletal retention).
  27. ICRP Publication 67, International Commission on Radiological Protection, 1993.
  28. EPA, 'Radionuclide Basics: Radium,' United States Environmental Protection Agency.
  29. NRC, 'Alpha Particle,' U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Glossary.
  30. EPA, 'Radionuclide Basics: Radium,' United States Environmental Protection Agency (Ra-226 half-life ~1,600 years).
  31. Rowland, R.E., Radium in Humans: A Review of US Studies, Argonne National Laboratory, 1994.
  32. Kate Moore, The Radium Girls, Sourcebooks, 2017 (Mollie Maggia; Dr. Knef lifts out jaw fragments).
  33. Britannica, 'Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a Killer Workplace.'
  34. Amelia 'Mollie' Maggia (1896-1922), Find a Grave / multiple histories.
  35. Amelia Malia 'Mollie' Maggia — Find a Grave Memorial (died Sept. 12, 1922).
  36. Kate Moore, The Radium Girls, Sourcebooks, 2017 (Maggia death certificate / syphilis attribution).
  37. Britannica, 'Radium Girls.'
  38. Brandt, A.M., No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880, Oxford University Press, 1987.
  39. Jones, J.H., Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Free Press, expanded ed. 1993.
  40. Brandt, A.M., No Magic Bullet, Oxford University Press, 1987.
  41. Kate Moore, The Radium Girls, Sourcebooks, 2017 (Fryer's crumbling spine and back brace).
  42. Radium Girls — Wikipedia.
  43. Martland, H.S., 'The Occurrence of Malignancy in Radioactive Persons,' American Journal of Cancer, vol. 15, 1931.
  44. Radium Girls — Wikipedia (names the five 1928 plaintiffs).
  45. "The Radium Girls: A Tale of Workplace Safety," Juris Magazine, Duquesne University School of Law, 2019.
  46. "Grace Fryer," Wikipedia; "Radium Girls," Wikipedia (plaintiff biographical/death dates).
  47. R.E. Rowland, Radium in Humans: A Review of U.S. Studies (Argonne National Laboratory, ANL/ER-3, 1994).
  48. "Radium Girls," Wikipedia; "Grace Fryer," Wikipedia.
  49. H.S. Martland, "The Occurrence of Malignancy in Radioactive Persons," American Journal of Cancer, vol. 15, 1931.
  50. "The Radium Girls at the National Archives," The Text Message (NARA archivists' blog), 2018.
  51. Ross Mullner, Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy (American Public Health Association, 1999).
  52. R.F. Mould, A Century of X-Rays and Radioactivity in Medicine (IOP Publishing, 1993).