Stone workers shaping and setting stone blocks for the capitol. Original description on print: “#13, August 31, 1896–From S.E. Corner.” Photograph album, May 1896–November 1905 (+Reserve 47, Box 1). Minnesota Board of State Capitol Commissioners records, 1892–1914.

Men working in the area of the capitol dome, ca. 1901. Note the lack of hardhats as the workers hoist heavy materials above their heads.

Circa 1940

Crowd demonstrating in front of the Works Progress Administration sewing project in Minneapolis, 1939.

Work Progress Administration sewing project strike, Minneapolis, 1939

Police attempt to move a striking worker off a WPA job site in the Twin Cities by dragging him, 1939.

circa 1939

Representatives of the Workers Alliance and the Workers Benefit Association lead the move at Dunning Field, St. Paul, to take thirty-five men off a building job, 1939.

Police, strikers, and workers at Dunning Field, St. Paul, July 1939.