The International Web Site for the History of Guiding and Scouting PAXTU http://www.Paxtu.org A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections related to the Girl Scouts of the USA Compiled August 15, 2010 David L. Peavy The following is guide to archives – along with a description of the scope and content of the collection – which contain material related to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA). Because of the amount of primary documents related to the GSUSA in collections around the country, this listing is not to be regarded as complete, however, the most important and significant collections are included and marked (*). Collections are listed by state. It is hoped that subsequent revisions to this Guide will enable it to be more comprehensive. Additions to this guide will be made upon receipt of additional information. If you’re aware of a collection not listed, please send the following information to [email protected]: Creator of collection, title of collection, name of the repository, location of the repository, a brief description of the scope and content of the collection, and, if available, a URL of the collection/finding aid. Alabama Gallagher, Buell Gordon. Papers. Talladega College Historical Collections, Savery Library, Talladega College. Talladega, AL. Contents: Educator. Personal and professional correspondence, records, and speeches relating to Talladega College, of which Gallagher was president (1934-43), national Congregational church work, especially Negro Congregationalism, American Missionary Association, race problems in Alabama and the U. S., status of Negroes in the armed services, Negroes in World War II, conscientious objectors in World War II, Negro college athletics, racial discrimination in the national Girl Scouts, facilities for Negroes on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, medical services in Ethiopia, Alabama State Federation of Women's Clubs (Negro), and the Sweatshop Committee in Passaic Valley, N. J., (1933). Correspondents include Bernard Baruch, Samuel B. Coles, Thomas Jesse Jones, Charles T. Loram, and Captolia Dent Newburn. Permanent deposit, 1970. NUCMC no.MS 72-1290 Hunt, Guy. Governor's High Risk Youth Program (GHRY) grant files, 1988-1992. Alabama Department of Archives and History. Montgomery, AL. Contents: The High Risk Youth Program (GHRY) was established around 1987 under Governor Guy Hunt. This program was begun to assist organizations designed to discourage youths from drug use, dropping out of school, and gang membership. This series consists of contracts, financial statements, outlines of the GHRY program, audit reports and applications (both accepted and denied). Among the organizations that cooperated with this program were: boys and girls clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Youth Centers and Help Centers. www.Paxtu.org Page 1 Arizona Flagstaff Women's Club. Manuscript collection, 1916-1996. Special Collections and Archives Department, Cline Library, Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, AZ. Contents: The collection contains Women's Club minutes, financial ledgers, and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings related to the organization's activities. The collection is primarily an administrative collection that would be best used for data collection regarding charitable activities of the organization. Peska, Deborah (interviewer). Typewritten transcript of oral history interview with a daughter of a pioneer of the Phoenix area: 1981 October 28 (Lives of Arizona women, v. 6). Special Collections, Hayden Library, Arizona State University. Tempe. AZ. Contents: Interview with a Daughter of a pioneer of the Phoenix area discussing life in early Safford, Arizona, and her later experiences as a housewife during World War II in California. California American Children's Fund. American Children's Fund Records, 1923-1950. Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford, CA. Contents: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, financial records, and printed matter, relating to funding of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Boys' Clubs of America and other organizations carrying out work in the areas of child health and welfare in the United States. http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf8s2006nx&doc.view=entire_text&brand=oac Conway, Alice , Herbert Hoover, and Lou Henry Hoover. Alice Conway letters received, 1934-1941. Hoover Institute on War, Revolution & Peace. Stanford, CA. Contents: Letters from Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover, relating to Girl Scouting and personal matters. Dammeyer, Elise (interviewee), and Carolyn Gravatte (interviewer). Oral history interview with Elsie Dammeyer, 1989 May 9. Sierra Madre Public Library. Sierra Madre, CA. Contents: This interview was conducted on May 9, 1989 as part of the Sierra Madre Oral History Project. Elsie describes her childhood growing up in Sierra Madre, including details of her mother's vegetable and fruit gardening and her clothes making. There are also descriptions of her education, her involvement in various theater productions, riding on the street cars, and of various natural disasters. She also discusses her involvement in the non-academic sorority, Delta Phi Theta; the effects of the Depression of 1929; a Halloween prank pulled off by her brother, Rudolph, and some of his friends that wound them up in court; and of hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains using home made flashlights. Elsie was active in the Girl Scouts of America, the Parent Teachers Association, the Red Cross; and was a member of the Cultural Heritage Commission, the Sierra Madre Environmental Action Council, and Friends of the Library. Dyer, Susan Louise. Papers, 1895-1965. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Stanford, CA. Contents: Correspondence, diary, scrapbooks, memorabilia, clippings, photographs, sound recording, and printed matter, relating to Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, Stanford University, the Hoover Institution, the Girl Scouts, and the American Red Cross in France during World War I. Finnish Relief Fund. Finnish Relief Fund Records, 1939-1946. Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford, CA. Contents: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, press releases, financial records, printed matter, memorabilia, and photographs, relating to fundraising in the United States for civilian relief in Finland during the Russo-Finnish War. One folder of letters from American Girl Scouts to Girl Scouts in Finland. http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf4k4003hv&doc.view=entire_text&brand=oac www.Paxtu.org Page 2 Hinojos, Joe A. Collection. The Sierra Madre Historical Archives Collection, Sierra Madre Public Library. Sierra Madre, CA. Contents: Images depict members of the Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts with various civic leaders celebrating the groundbreaking of the Youth Hut. Hoover, Herbert. Herbert Hoover Subject Collection, 1895-1987. Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford, CA. Contents: Correspondence, speeches and writings, appointment calendars, printed matter, photographs, motion picture film, and sound recordings, relating to twentieth-century American politics, and to relief administration in World Wars I and II. Several folders relating to both the Boy and Girl Scouts. http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf758005bj&doc.view=entire_text&brand=oac Kemp, Kathryn. Kemp (Kathryn) Girl Scouts Collection (MSS 202). Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library, University of the Pacific. Stockton, CA. Contents: Kathryn Kemp graduated from the College of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. (1934). She taught school in Stockton and there helped found one of the first Girl Scout troops in the city, Troop 8, based at Lafayette School. Kemp was subsequently active in the Girl Scout leadership program and was President of the Girl Scouts Leaders' Association (c1946). The Kemp Stockton Girl Scouts Collection consists of the Stockton Troop 8 Scrapbook (1937-1956) created by Ms. Kemp and a miscellany of local and national Girl Scout printed matter (1920-1950). http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf4s20073w&doc.view=entire_text&brand=oac Meier, Margaret. Margaret Meier Collection of Extreme Right Ephemeral Materials, 1930-1980 (M0688). Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University. Stanford, CA. Contents: The archive consists of 47 manuscript boxes and 9 print boxes. The collection contains Margaret and Herbert Meier's materials documenting the rise and the activities of the extreme right in California and national politics. The bulk of the materials date from the 1960s-early 1970s, with additional materials from the late 1930s through the 1980s. Much of the materials relate to activities and groups in Southern California, where the Meiers lived, especially the towns of Arcadia and Sierra Madre. Included are political ephemera, newspaper and magazine clippings, and serials from extreme right groups such as the John Birch Society, Americanism clubs, various Christian right organizations, republican and extreme right political personalities. A censorship debate regarding the Arcadia Public Library's decision to include Kazantzakis' work, The Last Temptation of Christ, the activities of and opposition to the John Birch Society, and opposition to Senator Kuchel of California are three examples of subjects which are especially well covered. The collection also contains 18 boxes of serials and 3 OS boxes of newspapers, including publications of the John Birch Society and its leader, Robert Welch, the Institute for American Democracy, and Gerald L.K. Smith. MM's notes are found throughout the