A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Ojibwe women parching wild rice at Nett Lake Indian Reservation, ca. 1947. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.
Women reading in library, Rochester State Hospital, c.1930.
Women sewing, Munsingwear Corporation, Minneapolis, 1920. Photograph by C. J. Hibbard.
Women with parasols by Round Tower, c.1900.
Women with their bicycles, c.1898.
Women workers at Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company (2854 Minnehaha Avenue, Minneapolis), ca. 1917.
Packing chocolates at Griggs, Cooper & Company in St. Paul, ca. 1932.
Women working at Hamm’s Brewery in St. Paul, ca. 1904.
Women working in a Minneapolis factory. Photograph by Ray Gordon, ca. 1940–1945.
Women working in the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota carry out quality-control tests on cans of SPAM. Printed in Life 7, no. 19 (November 6, 1939), page 58.