Maude Kegg at Mille Lacs, undated. Photo by Monroe P. Killy.

Maude Kegg preparing wiigob (basswood) for basket making, Mille Lacs, 1947. Photo by Monroe P. Killy.

Maude Kegg at Mille Lacs, undated. Photo by Monroe P. Killy.

Workers at the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant pack .50 caliber machine-gun ammunition into cartridge boxes during World War II. At peak production in 1943, the plant employed 26,000 people, of which 60 percent were women. Photograph by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company.

Snana Good Thunder (Maggie Brass, left) and Mary E. Schwandt Schmidt (Mrs. William, right), 1899. Photo by Shepherd Photo Studio.

Mary D. Woodbury Caswell, ca. 1880. Mary grew up in the Woodbury House with her brother, and inherited it from her mother in 1908. She and her husband, Irving Caswell, raised their son there. Anoka County Historical Society, Object ID# 3000.4.32-B. Used with the permission of Anoka County Historical Society

Woman-suffrage banner used by the St. Paul Political Equality Club, 1920–1936.

Minnesota Governor J. A. O. Preus and Idelle Preus voting, ca. 1920.

Suffrage cartoon by A. T. Reid from the Minneapolis Tribune, showing the tally of suffrage states by political parties as of July 16, 1920. The man represents southern Democrats who had a reputation for being anti-suffrage.

Clara Ueland, 1920. Photo by Moffett Studio Photography.