Mrs. Hibbard, Almeda St. Clair, Susan Salisbury, and Jeanette Crooks Campbell display lace made at the Redwood Mission (Birch Coulee), ca. 1900. Not available in Collections Online; photograph N4.4 r40, Minnesota Historical Society.

Emma Good Thunder (left) and Jeanette Crooks (right) working on needlework and bobbin lace, respectively, at the Redwood Agency (Birch Coulee), ca. 1900.

Set of twenty-six lace bobbins, used ca. 1890s–1910s. The Dakota women who made lace at the Redwood Mission (Birch Coulee) as part of Sybil Carter's Indian Lace Association used bobbins of this kind.

Dakota lace makers with Sybil Carter, ca. 1905.

Bobbin-lace table mat made with linen thread, ca. 1890s–1910s.

A Dakota tape-lace doily made with linen thread, ca. 1890s–1900s.

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.