A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
The Woolworth Building (designed by Cass Gilbert) in New York City, ca. 1913. Public domain.
Charles Biederman sculpture from 1968-69. Sculpture, Painted Aluminum construction; size: 41¼ x 29¼ 9 in.
Work Progress Administration (WPA) sewing project strike, Minneapolis, ca. 1939.
circa 1939
Work Progress Administration sewing project strike, Minneapolis, 1939
Work room, Minneapolis Artificial Limb Company, 1940.
Northern Pacific Railway Company Como Shops, St. Paul, 1970. Photograph by Joe E. B. Elliott.
Worker dressed as Santa, passing out gifts at the Neighborhood House, c.1925.
A worker points to a section of the collapsed I-35W bridge on August 3, 2017. Photograph by Kevin Rofidal (Edina Police Department).
Workers and a mule at a quarry in what now is Blue Mounds State Park, ca. 1880s. From the photograph collection of the Luverne Chamber of Commerce.