Records, 1915-1967 (inclusive).

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Records, 1915-1967 (inclusive).

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Minutes of annual meetings and of executive board meetings, reports, photos, and other records for the metropolitan, eastern, and western divisions of the Massachusetts Girl Scouts; camping department records; minutes, reports, and financial records of the Massachusetts state camp committee; minutes and reports of the Eastern Division Field Committee; and minutes of the Local Directors' Association. Also included are correspondence, speeches, reports, and biographical information by and about Massachusetts Scout leaders Sarah Louise Arnold, Augusta Batchelder Hartt, Lou (Henry) Hoover, and Helen Osborne Storrow. There are few records prior to 1921.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in 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...

Hall, Susan, 1859-1943

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Educator; sometimes wrote under pseudonym Susan Hall. From the description of Papers, 1894-1954 (bulk 1898-1904). (Simmons College). WorldCat record id: 28418519 ...

Hartt, Augusta Batchelder, 1872-

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Baden-Powell, Olave, 1889-1977

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Wife of Sir Robert Baden-Powell and leader of the Girl Scout movement. From the description of Letter, 1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367573878 ...

Massachusetts Girl Scouts.

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The Massachusetts Council of the Girl Scouts of America was formed in 1916. In 1919 it was incorporated and divided into 3 regional divisions. Activities included leadership training, camping, health education, and volunteer work. From the description of Records, 1915-1967 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006735 The American Girl Scout program, an adaptation of Sir Robert Baden-Powell's English Scouting and Guiding movement, was founded ...

Choate, Anne Hyde, 1886-

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Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944

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Lou Henry Hoover served as First Lady from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of the 31st President, Herbert Hoover. An avid Chinese linguist and geology scholar, she was also the first First Lady to make regular nationwide radio broadcasts. Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover brought to it long experience as wife of a man eminent in public affairs at home and abroad. She had shared his interests since they met in a geology lab at Leland Stanford University. She was a fre...