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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.
Women working in the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota. Printed in Life 7, no. 19 (November 6, 1939), page 58.
World War I-era poster, 1917.
The Way women’s softball team poses for a group portrait in Minneapolis ca. 1985. Photo by Charles Chamblis.