Description: Two Girls in Green, c.1920. Painted by Henrietta Barclay Paist.

Girl in a Blue Dress, c.1920. Painted by Henrietta Barclay Paist.

Henrietta Barclay Paist and others posed outside with a bicycle, c.1905.

Henrietta Barclay Paist trade sign, created between 1900 and 1925.

Henrietta Barclay Paist in her studio in Minneapolis, c.1905.

Workers at the Western Freight traffic office, 1911. Photograph by Charles J. Hibbard. The "paperwork revolution" in the early twentieth century provided a whole new field of employment for Minnesota women.

Wild rice harvest. Two women winnowing rice with nooshkaachinaaganan (winnowing baskets), 1910-1918. Photograph by Frances Densmore.

A country schoolhouse near Fosston, Minnesota, 1895. In the first years of statehood, school teachers in rural districts had to "board around" with local families.

An operating room at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, 1893. The Sisters of St. Francis at St. Mary's were known for their excellent nursing care.