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How girls can help their country / adapted from Agnes Baden-Powell and Sir Robert Baden-Powell's handbook.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girl Scouts--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Girl Scouts.
- Girl Scouts of the United States of America--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Juvenile literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Hayden, Gertrude Brown, 1904-1999 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 154 pages, [11] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Manufacture:
- Savannah, Ga. : Press of M.S. & D.A. Byck Co.
- Other Title:
- Handbook for girl scouts
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : [Publisher not identified], 1917.
- Contents:
- History
- How to begin
- Laws
- Self-improvement
- Membership
- Qualifications for grades and rank
- Enrollment
- Badges and awards
- Tests for merit badges
- Games
- Camping
- Scoutcraft
- Stars
- Gardening
- Sanitation
- Health
- Home life
- First aid
- Patriotism
- List of books to read
- Index.
- Notes:
- Adapted to the use of the Girl Scouts of the United States by Juliette Low, with the help of committees and experts from all parts of America.
- Printing information from back cover.
- "Copies of this book may be obtained from Girl Scout National Headquarters, 527 Fifth Avenue, City of New York, price 30 cents, postpaid."--Page iv.
- "Reading list": Pages 142-152.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on page [2] of cover.
- Schimmel Collection copy has on verso of frontispiece plate autograph ("Miss Gertrude Brown Raymond Me.") in pencil, probably of Gertrude Ardelia Brown (later Hayden; 1904-1999).
- Cited in:
- Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 87
- OCLC:
- 3786550
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