Valley of the Moon photograph collection, 1945-1983 (bulk 1945-1953).

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Valley of the Moon photograph collection, 1945-1983 (bulk 1945-1953).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50814070

Summary: Small collection of photographs of Valley of the Moon tour groups, caves and structures, children's theater performances and audiences, rabbits in costume, child performers, the Bunnyland Theater sets, girl scout assistants at the Pima County Fair in 1947, and George Legler, mostly taken between 1945 and 1953 with a few from the 1970s to 1980s.

.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7632754

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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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...

Valley of the Moon (Tucson, Ariz.)

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Biographical note: George Phar Legler purchased two and a half acres of land on Allen Road, Tucson, Arizona in 1923. He constructed a series of caves, tunnels, towers, rock villages, waterfalls, dragons and gnomes, and opened the Valley of the Moon in 1932 as a children's theme park. Legler gave magic shows and fairy tours; in the 1940s, he produced "Bunnyland", a theater program featuring rabbits dressed in costume. In the 1970s, the Valley of the Moon Restoration Society was created to restore...

Legler, George Phar, 1884-1982

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