This virtual program will reveal the riveting account of Minneapolis' red-light district and it's powerful madams who ran them. Author Penny Petersen will bring to life this chapter of our city's history, tracing the story of how these "houses of ill fame" [...]
Join Professor Jacqueline deVries as she puts the local Women’s Suffrage movement in context with national and international movements.
Join Professor Jacqueline deVries as she puts the local Women’s Suffrage movement in context with national and international movements.
Join Professor Jacqueline deVries as she puts the local Women’s Suffrage movement in context with national and international movements.
Join us for a conversation between Jennifer Vongroven and Agatha Lamin, two healthcare workers on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Minneapolis. The discussion will be moderated by Zac Farber, former editor of the Southwest Journal.
March 26, 2021 Fire safety pamphlet from the Women's Civil Defense Council collection. This flyer makes me think of those safety films we had to watch in grade school. I remember a long walk through the bowels of the [...]
Lena Olive Smith: Civil Rights in the 1930s by Jackie Sluss This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, Winter 1995, Vol. 54, No. 1 Lena Olive Smith and client at Olive Hair Store, Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis. Courtesy [...]
March 19, 2018 This dental chair was used by Dr. Fanny ‘Nusia’ Freund Borgen, the first female orthodontist in Minneapolis. Dr. Borgen graduated from the University of Minnesota Dental School where she earned her DDS in 1956 and her Orthodontics degree [...]
March 15, 2018 This navy colored, wool cape was worn by Cora Eleanor (Hanson) Stahn during her years as a nursing student (1942-1944) at the Fairview Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis. Capes were given out to nursing students in the [...]
March 5, 2018 Long before women won the right to vote in 1920, women were given the opportunity to vote in small-scale local elections through organizations like the National Woman’s Relief Corps (WRC). This ballot box was used by the women [...]
