Riverhead Town Local Council of Girl Scouts, Records, 1929-1957.

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Riverhead Town Local Council of Girl Scouts, Records, 1929-1957.

Record book of the Riverhead Town Local Council of Girl Scouts, 1937-1952; clippings, pamphlets, manuals, 1929-1953; scrapbook of a trip to Washington, D.C., 1957.

.3 cubic ft.

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