- Collection:
- Juliette Gordon Low papers
- Title:
- Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scouts, Correspondence, 1920
- Creator:
- Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927
- Publisher:
- Box 18, Folder 206, Gordon family papers, MS 318, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Date of Original:
- 1920
- Subject:
- Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927--Correspondence
Livingstone, Colin H.--Correspondence
McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941--Correspondence
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948--Correspondence
O'Ryan, John F. (John Francis), 1874-1961--Correspondence
Rosenwald, Augusta Nusbaum, 1868-1929--Correspondence
Howell, Bertha--Correspondence
Choate, Anne Hyde--Correspondence
Holmes, F. C.--Correspondence
McCormick, Vance Criswell, 1872-1946--Correspondence
Driggs, Laurence La Tourette, 1876---Correspondence
Johnston, Edith Duncan--Correspondence
Rippin, Jane Deeter--Correspondence
Livingstone, Colin H.--Correspondence - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- correspondence
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Juliette (Gordon) Low founded the Girl Scouts of the United States of America in 1912.
Correspondents include Juliette Gordon Low; Colin H. Livingstone, President of Boy Scouts of America; William Gibbs McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury; John J. Pershing, Commander of American Expeditionary Forces; John F. O'Ryan, Major-General, National Guard, New York; Mrs. Julius Rosenwald; Bertha Howell; Ann Choate; Leila B. D'Nano; F.C. Holmes, Chairman of the Plymouth Tercentenary Committee; Vance Criswell McCormick, newspaper publisher, Chairman of the War Trade Board, member of the War Mission to Great Britain and France; Georg ?; Laurence La Tourette Driggs, President of the American Flying Club; Edith Johnston; Emer. W. Briggs; Wm. S. Kyle; Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin. Among the correspondence in this folder is a letter of January 19 from Colin H. Livingstone to Juliette Gordon Low, thanking her for the minutes of the International Conference and talking about the Boy and Girl Scout movements. A letter of January 28 from William Gibbs McAdoo to Anne Choate offers the assistance of himself and his wife to the Girl Scout movement. In a letter to Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin, John J. Pershing accepts a position of the Executive Board of the Girl Scouts. Letters of July and August 1920 between Juliette Gordon Low, Emer. W. Briggs, Wm. S. Kyle, and F.C. Holmes are concerned with Juliette Gordon Low's membership on the Plymouth Tercentenary Committee as representative of the Girl Scouts. A letter of November 10 to Juliette Gordon Low from Vance C. McCormick discusses securing a license from the War Trade Board to take a Girl Scout film to England in 1920. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:g-hi_318_318-18-206
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/juliettegordonlow/do:318-18-206
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [item identification], Gordon family papers, MS 318, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Extent:
- 15.0 items
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Historical Society
- Rights:
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