Literally, the work was light as the main job the young ladies were given was to apply glowing paint to the faces of clocks, instrument gauges, and wristwatches for the United States Radium Company.

In the 1920s when radium paint was introduced into the manufacture of clock dials in a New Jersey factory, the dangers of the newly developed material were still to be discovered.

The girls, some as young as 14, painted watch dials with a luminous, radium-containing paint to make the dials visible in the dark. When the girls mixed the paint, radium dust got everywhere ...

In the 1920s, a group of women using radium to paint watch dials unknowingly sealed their fate, exposing themselves to a deadly substance that would forever change their lives. Radium ...

The Actors’ Mission kicked off a new month at the Broadway Theater with free performances of “Radium Girls.” ...