The Willmar 8 outside the Citizens National Bank of Willmar (Kandiyohi County) during their first days on the picket line, December 1977. From box 51 of the St. Paul Dispatch/Pioneer Press photographs arranged by subject (photographs collection), ca. 1910–1985, Minnesota Historical Society.

Oliver Iron Mining (OIM) workers at the Soudan Mine, 1950–1962.

Women working in a Minneapolis factory. Photograph by Ray Gordon, ca. 1940–1945.

Woman operating a drill press at the Honeywell plant in Minneapolis, 1945. Photograph by the Minneapolis Star-Journal.

Woman working on the wiring of a B-24 "Liberator" bomber. Photograph by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, May 24, 1944. Forms part of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Newspaper Negative Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Woman with coworkers inside a factory in Minneapolis, 1944.

Women packaging Red Mill cheese in a Minneapolis factory, October 14, 1937. Photograph by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune.

Strutwear Knitting Company employees at the firm’s Minneapolis factory, ca. 1936. Photo by Philip C. Dittes.

Packing chocolates at Griggs, Cooper & Company in St. Paul, ca. 1932.

Women workers at Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company (2854 Minnehaha Avenue, Minneapolis), ca. 1917.