Oliver-built homes in Marble, Minnesota, 1920. The company designed and built homes in in the Canisteo District for employees to live in as they populated towns throughout the western Mesabi Range.

Labor Day Parade, Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, 1909.

Labor Day Parade, Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, 1909.

The president of the United Packing House Workers of America (UPWA) union Local 6Local 6, Charles Lee, 1959. Minneapolis Star Tribune portraits collection (news photos, box 108), Minnesota Historical Society

: Attorney General Miles Lord (left) and Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman (right), 1958.

Minnesota Governor Orville Freedman, 1957.

Aerial view of Wilson & Company meatpacking plant, Albert Lea, 1955.

The president of the United Packing House Workers of America (UPWA) union Local 6, Charles Lee (second from left), with Freeborn County attorney O. Russell Olson (far left), sheriff Everette Stovern (third from right), police lieutenant Woodrow Chrz (second from right), and union lawyer Doug Hall (far right), 1959. Minneapolis Star Tribune portraits collection (news photos, box 108), Minnesota Historical Society.

Members of the National Guard confront striking meatpacking plant workers in Albert Lea. Printed in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune, December 12, 1959. Original caption: “National Guardsmen dispersed crowds at Wilson Gate early Friday morning.” Photograph by Charles Brill.