Women working in a Minneapolis factory. Photograph by Ray Gordon, ca. 1940–1945.

Woman operating a drill press at the Honeywell plant in Minneapolis, 1945. Photograph by the Minneapolis Star-Journal.

Woman working on the wiring of a B-24 "Liberator" bomber. Photograph by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, May 24, 1944. Forms part of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Newspaper Negative Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Woman with coworkers inside a factory in Minneapolis, 1944.

Women packaging Red Mill cheese in a Minneapolis factory, October 14, 1937. Photograph by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune.

Strutwear Knitting Company employees at the firm’s Minneapolis factory, ca. 1936. Photo by Philip C. Dittes.

Packing chocolates at Griggs, Cooper & Company in St. Paul, ca. 1932.

Women workers at Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company (2854 Minnehaha Avenue, Minneapolis), ca. 1917.

United War Work Campaign poster. Lithograph by Adolph Treidler for the American Lithographic Company, ca. 1917–1918.

Employees of the food wholesaler Griggs, Cooper & Company (probably its candy division) in Lowertown St. Paul, ca. 1910s. From the collection of Harold Rutstein; used with permission.