Gene Ritchie holiday card, 1932. Linoleum block on paper. Used with the permission of Jean E. Monahan Kelly.

Gene Ritchie's “Self Portrait.” Winner of the first-place award at the Duluth Art Institute's 1930 Arrowhead Art Exhibition. Oil on canvas, 1929. 24 x 30. Used with the permission of Jean E. Monahan Kelly.

Gene Ritchie self-portrait, pencil on paper, ca. 1928.

The family of Gene Monahan Ritchie, ca. 1928: brother, Robert Gerald Ritchie (bottom, center); father, Arthur C. Ritchie; mother, Jeannette M. Dally Ritchie (middle row); sister, Ruth Elizabeth Ritchie; brother, Arthur Enoch Ritchie ; Genevieve (Gene) Mae Ritchie (top row). Used with the permission of Jean E. Monahan Kelly.

Gene Ritchie’s artwork for Denfield High School’s yearbook, The Oracle (faculty page), Duluth, 1926. Used with the permission of Jean E. Monahan Kelly.

This sash, used by the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association in the 1910s, emphasized the voting rights already held by Norwegian women and the desire for the United States to follow suit.

Nanny Mattson Jaeger, second SWSA president, ca. 1919. From the National Woman's Party Records (Group I, Container I:152, Folder: Jaeger, Nanny Mattson). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Located on the State Fairgrounds, the Woman Citizen Building was intended to be a place for women to congregate. The Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association raised the funds to build the center, then turned it over to the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association in 1917.

Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing, members of the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association sell Danish pottery to fundraise for the Red Cross. From the Woman Citizen Journal, September 15, 1917.