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Boy Scout

Date: 02 02 1942
Description: Full-length portrait of a Boy Scout, probably Edward Soderholm.
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Girl Scout Jane McElvain

Date: 01 27 1944
Description: Thirteen year old Jane McElvain, the youngest member of the Mariner Senior Girl Scout program and an editorial writer for the Wisconsin State Journal Newsp...
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Katrine Nickel

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: Portrait of Katrine Nickel, executive secretary of the Madison Girl Scout Council.
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Jack Burkhalter and his Telescope

Date: 07 20 1945
Description: Jack Burkhalter, nine-year old Cub Scout, grinding and polishing a lens for the telescope he is building. Jack may be the nation's youngest amateur telesco...
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Robert Burkhalter and his Telescope

Date: 07 20 1945
Description: Robert Burkhalter, a life Boy Scout member of Troop 5, standing next to the telescope he built and mounted in his backyard, 105 Cambridge Road, Shorewood H...
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Two Boy Scout Pen Pals

Date: 06 04 1948
Description: Two Boy Scouts, George Koehler of Madison, at left, and Michael Benamou, at right, scout from Marseilles, France, who is visiting in Madison. The two scout...
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Girl Scouts Cookie Project

Date: 03 12 1949
Description: Nancy Hockett and Patricia Rinden, two Girl Scouts from Troop 46 at East Jr. High School, nibble cookies in anticipation of their project to sell cookies ...
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Girl Scout Troop 46 East Jr. High School

Date: 03 12 1949
Description: Margaret Brigham, 2814 Lakeland Avenue, is shown giving her ice skates a good cleaning as part of the Girl Scout project on care of property and equipment.
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Brownie Day Camp

Date: 06 28 1949
Description: Two girls at Brownie Day Camp at Burrows Park. Standing near a boat on the shore of Lake Mendota is Shelia Sullivan, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Su...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 06 09 1949
Description: Frankie Meyer, the 1948 Soap Box Derby champion, stands next to his Wisconsin State Journal-sponsored racer. He is wearing the shirt and helmet given to h...
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Guinea Pig

Date: 02 17 1950
Description: Randall school student John Drake, wearing a Boy Scout uniform, holding his classroom's newborn guinea pig named "Mix-Up, Jr."
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Boy Scout Christmas Tree Lot

Date: 12 08 1950
Description: Charles Amacker, left, and Kenneth Greve, members of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps, stand in front of the Corps' Christmas tree lot located in the 11...
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1951-52 United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Representing the Girl Scouts is Ann Toborsky, 516 South Orchard Street, a member of Troop 182 at St. James School. More than nine hundred volunteer workers...
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Girl Scout Week

Date: 10 20 1952
Description: Giving the Girl Scout pledge is Barbara Brown, a student at West High school, who is typical of the nearly two million members of the Girl Scout organizati...
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Girl Scouts Off to Round-Up in Colorado

Date: 06 21 1959
Description: Nancy Muckenhirn is shown with Devil's Lake rocks that the Black Hawk Council of Girl Scouts will be taking to Colorado Springs for the Senior Girl Scout R...
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Mark Weber's Tenth Birthday

Date: 01 12 1961
Description: Mark Weber, dressed in a boy scout uniform, winks with one eye while pointing to number 13 on the calendar. He was born on a Friday the thirteenth and his ...
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Bart and Cherry Starr

Date: 03 13 2014
Description: Bart Starr (Pro Football Hall of Famer and Former Green Bay Packer quarterback and coach) and his wife, Cherry Starr, posing for a photo at a Boy Scouts of...
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Bart Starr

Date: 03 13 2014
Description: Posed portrait of Bart Starr, Pro Football Hall of Famer and Former Green Bay Packer quarterback and coach at a Boy Scouts of America press conference in t...
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Eagle Scout Awards

Date: 10 29 1962
Description: Andrew Anderson, left, and Morris Wee receive their Eagle Scout badges at Bethel Lutheran Church. They are members of Boy Scout Troop 6.
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Girl Scout Reunion

Date: 07 30 1964
Description: Veronica Gonzalez, of Mexico City, is having a reunion with Girl Scout Troop 31 in Madison and their leader, Dorothy Conrad (right). She served as a guide ...

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