American Children's Fund Records, 1923-1950

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American Children's Fund Records, 1923-1950

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, financial records, and printed matter, relating to funding of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Boys' Clubs of America and other organizations carrying out work in the areas of child health and welfare in the United States.

48 manuscript boxes; (7.2 linear feet)

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6666473

Hoover Institution Archives

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Boys' Clubs of America

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Girl Scouts of the United States of America

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The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 when Low organized the first Girl Guide troop meeting of 18 girls at her home in Savannah, Georgia. By the next year they became the Girl Scouts of the United States. By the 1920s troops were forming overseas as well. Low was inspired to start the Girl Scouts after she met Robert Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, in 1911. Beginning with Lou Henry Hoover, the incumbent First Lady has served as the Honorary Pr...

Boy Scouts of America

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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers. The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, more than 110 million Americans have been participants in BSA programs at some time. The BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Or...

American Children's Fund.

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