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.

Members of the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association participate in “Minnesota Day” at a suffrage picket line in Washington, DC, 1917. From the Library of Congress’s National Woman's Party Records (Group I, Container I:160, Folder: Pickets, 1917). Photographed by Harris & Ewing, Washington, DC.

A statue honoring Swedish icon Gunnar Wennerberg is unveiled in Minnehaha Park on June 24, 1915. Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association members stand on the right holding their suffrage banner.

Swedish folk dancers pose at a Loring Park festival organized by the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association in Minneapolis, 1915. Minneapolis Morning Tribune (May 12, 1915)

Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association founder Ethel Edgerton Hurd (back row, center) and president Nanny Mattson Jaeger (front row, holding umbrella) pose with members of the Political Equality Club, ca. 1915.

Women display Scandinavian costumes and flags in a Minneapolis suffrage parade on May 2, 1914. The march drew 2,000 participants.