Sue M. Dickey Hough, one of the first women elected to the Minnesota Legislature. Photo by the Star and Tribune Company, 1926. Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis.

Margaret Brooks Thompson at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for Charles Thompson Memorial Hall in St. Paul, June 3, 1916.

Maude Kegg (seated at center) holding her great-great-granddaughter Desiree, ca. 1988. Also pictured are Kegg’s daughter Betty Kegg (above right); her granddaughter Victoria Verkennes (above center); and her great-granddaughter Kristine Verkennes, above left).

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