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Girl Scouts at Loraine Hotel

Date: 12 12 1936
Description: Elevated view from balcony of large group of Girl Scouts in the dining room of the Loraine Hotel. Many of the girls are sitting on the floor in the front, ...
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Boy Scouts with Christmas Seal Posters

Date: 11 25 1933
Description: A group portrait of Boy Scouts and adult leaders armed with tacks, hammers and posters to promote the sale of Christmas Seals.
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Emerson Girl Scouts

Date: 12 08 1931
Description: Emerson school girl scouts do clothing maintenance such as ironing, sewing, and shoe polishing around a table.
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Boy Scouts Planting a Tree

Date: 11 12 1931
Description: Boy Scouts planting a Norway spruce tree on "George Washington Drive," a stretch of road a mile long on Highway 51, extending north from the intersection w...
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Mothers and Children of the Neighborhood

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Group portrait of mothers and children in front of a house at 434 Virginia Terrace.
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Girl Scouts with Badges

Date: 06 05 1931
Description: Group portrait of the Lincoln School Girl Scout Troop, holding enlarged replicas of badges earned by Dorothea Desormeaux, which earned her the Golden Eagle...
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Movie Goers with Boy Scouts and Indian

Date: 11 22 1930
Description: People lined up in front of the Strand Theater, 16 E. Mifflin Street, to see "The Big Trail." Also shows Boy Scouts, their leader and an Indian with a sign...
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Young "Girl" in Curls

Date: 11 1938
Description: A young boy sits while getting his hair curled with an electric curling iron. According to an article that appeared in the January 9, 1939 Life maga...
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Boy Scout Parade

Date: 1938
Description: Elevated view. As part of Boy Scout Day at the Wisconsin State Fair, a contingent of scout flag bearers marches over the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge over the M...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Tin Cans Clean-up

Date: 04 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of Boy Scouts and some of the 12,000 tin cans they collected in a neighborhood clean-up campaig...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Boy Scouts

Date: 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with three images of a Boy Scout troop: a group portrait in front of the settlement house with men and boys ...
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Neighborhood House Album: Boy Scouts Saluting

Date: 1935
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a three-quarter view of a man and two boy scouts on either side of him who are standing at attentio...
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Scouts Pushing Car in Snow

Date: 1938
Description: Scouts at a winter camp push a car stuck in deep snow. Trees are in the background.
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Canoe Instruction

Date: 1935
Description: View across water towards Girl Scouts in five canoes setting out from shore on Rice Lake at Camp Hickory Hill. There is a temporary shade structure and woo...
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Girl Scout Camp

Date: 09 12 1938
Description: Four large canvas tents form a semicircle in an open wooded area near a lake. Girls Scouts, some in uniforms and other in casual summer attire, are posing ...
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Camp Kiwanis

Date: 1933
Description: Group portrait of Kiwanis Club members and several boys assembled in front of the Camp Kiwanis cabin in Lincoln Park. The boys may be part of Boy Scout Tro...

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