Children at the Ober Club day nursery.
Snack time at the Ober Club day nursery.
A spoonful of medicine at the Ober Club.
World War II’s iconic “Rosie the Riveter” celebrates women in the workforce.
World War ll era Twin City Lines recruitment ad urging women to apply for the “man-sized” job of a street car driver.
A woman works alongside men in a factory in Minnesota circa 1944.
As World War II ushers thousands of Minnesota women into the workforce, the Mission responds by opening a day nursery in the Ober Club “during the war emergency.”
Photos courtesy of the Union Gospel Mission, the Minnesota Historical Society and the Library of Congress.