Laboratory at the University of Minnesota’s Mines Experiment Station

Laboratory at the University of Minnesota’s Mines Experiment Station

Laboratory at the University of Minnesota’s Mines Experiment Station. Photograph by Jerry Mathaiason for the Historic American Buildings Survey, 1997. Public domain.

Laborers standing outside the Employment Bureau, 1908

Laborers standing outside the Employment Bureau, 1908

Laborers standing outside the Employment Bureau in the Minneapolis neighborhood that became known as the Gateway District, 1908. Shown in the window are postings for work as a “steam driller” for $2.50 a day near the city, and a posting for a bridge carpenter position in Missoula. Day laborers came by rail from all over the Midwest to Minneapolis’s “Bridge Square” to find work and blow off steam in saloons. Named for its proximity to the series of bridges over the Mississippi on the current site of Hennepin Avenue, the area was derided as early as the 1880s as a gathering spot for working-class and unemployed men, sex workers, and others deemed “unsavory.”

Lac qui Parle Mission, 1963

Lac qui Parle Mission, 1963

Reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission, 1963. Minnesota Historical Society photo collection (SD1La p20).

Lac qui Parle Mission, 2021

Lac qui Parle Mission, 2021

Reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission, 2021. Photograph by Connor Olson.

Lace bobbins

Lace bobbins

Set of twenty-six lace bobbins, used ca. 1890s–1910s. The Dakota women who made lace at the Redwood Mission (Birch Coulee) as part of Sybil Carter's Indian Lace Association used bobbins of this kind.

Lace collar

Lace collar

Lace collar made and used between 1850 and 1900. Accession T.53-1949, Textiles and Fashion Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Photograph of lace makers working outdoors at the Leech Lake Reservation

Lace makers at Leech Lake

Lace makers at Leech Lake, 1906.

Lace-making bobbin

Lace-making bobbin

Bone bobbin used in lace making. Excavated from the officers' quarters at Historic Fort Snelling in 1977. Accession 377.6.117.1, archaeology collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Lacrosse game on White Bear Lake

Lacrosse game on White Bear Lake

Lacrosse game on White Bear Lake. Photograph by David Joles, 2016.

Ladies who live in rooming house, St. Paul, Minnesota

Ladies who live in rooming house, St. Paul, Minnesota

1939 photograph by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.

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