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Printing machine in the office of the Waconia Patriot. Date and photographer unknown.
Recreation hour in the prison yard at Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, ca. 1905.
Inmates in the prison yard at Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, 1909. Photo by John Runk, Jr.
Prisoners at Minnesota State Prison working in the on-site twine factory, 1925.
Prisoners working at sewing machines, Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, 1950.
Prisoners working in a factory at Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, 1950.
Photograph taken of Adam Marty taken in Philadelphia, c.1864.
Cartoon supporting the Farm Bureau, 1955.
Pro-I.W.W. cartoon printed in the newspaper Solidarity on July 1, 1916. Cartoon is from Betten, Neil. “Riot, Revolution, Repression in the Iron Range Strike of 1916.” Minnesota History 51, no. 2 (1988): 63–74.
Demonstrators gather in St. Paul to show their support for immigrants’ and immigrant-workers’ rights, 2006. Photographed by Mary Turk.