Mollie was a dial painter for the United States Radium Corporation, a company primarily staffed by women during the world war and specialized and producing glow-in-the-dark watches for the military. Molly was the first of hundreds of women to suffer from long-term medical effects of radium exposure and she ultimately died as a result of it. On her death certificate, it originally listed that she died of syphilis, as radium poisoning had not yet been discovered. At the time, radium was actually thought to be healthy in small doses.
Mollie was a dial painter for the United States Radium Corporation, a company primarily staffed by women during the world war and specialized and producing glow-in-the-dark watches for the military. Molly was the first of hundreds of women to suffer from long-term medical effects of radium exposure and she ultimately died as a result of it. On her death certificate, it originally listed that she died of syphilis, as radium poisoning had not yet been discovered. At the time, radium was actually thought to be healthy in small doses.
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