Winona Normal School

Winona Normal School

The main building of the Winona Normal School, built in 1869, destroyed by fire in 1922. Pictured ca. 1900.

Postcard depicting Winona Normal School

Postcard depicting Winona Normal School

Postcard indicating with an arrow the original wood-framed
building of the Winona Normal School as it appeared ca. 1861.

Winona Normal School

The Winona Normal School was Minnesota’s first teacher-training school when it opened in 1860. The school fostered many innovations, including the state’s first “model school” program, a kind of laboratory school for training teachers. Over the years, the normal school evolved into a four-year state college and then into Winona State University.

Crowd demonstrating in front of the Minneapolis sewing project

Crowd demonstrating in front of the Minneapolis sewing project

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

Work Progress Administration sewing project strike, Minneapolis.

Work Progress Administration sewing project strike, Minneapolis.

Work Progress Administration sewing project strike, Minneapolis, 1939

Police dragging a striking worker

Police dragging a striking worker

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

Strike at Dunning Field in St. Paul

Strike at Dunning Field in St. Paul

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.

Police, strikers, and workers at Dunning Field.

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

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