Girl Scout Photograph album, 1923-1926 (inclusive).

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Girl Scout Photograph album, 1923-1926 (inclusive).

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Collection consists of a photograph album depicting Girl Scouts at Camp Patomska (or Potomska, possibly in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts), Camp Standish, and at Long Pond. Images include girls and counselors in uniforms, tents, and activities such as swimming, drama, etc. One image is of a girl in a wheelchair.

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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...