July 29 2022

Online Smithsonian Collection and Archive List

Traditional Stuff    2 Comments    , ,

It’s listed as a uniform belt but the image meta says it’s a hat.

If you’re like me, you love browsing through Girl Scout history. The Smithsonian has catalogued its Girl Scout items online and many of them include pictures!  Here’s a link that will take you straight to its items, and I’ve narrowed it down further to only show items with pictures.  Some of my thoughts:

  • Many of the items are identified incorrectly (like labeling badges as patches and mixing up BSA and GG items for GSUSA), but they’re still fun to look at.
  • You can stop at about page 11 because a bunch of non-Girl Scout items show up at that point.  There might be a few things scattered after that, but I didn’t go much further.
  • It’s always a little disconcerting when you see things that you wore growing up labeled as vintage and historical.
  • I am not sure why this Girl Scout Glove Make-Up Kit got my attention, but I need to research it in the GS Catalog website to find out what exactly it is.
  • Alas, no OFFICIAL scarves were featured. If you want to see a display of them, check this out!

Thanks to Echo for sharing this online extravaganza with us.

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In other news, reports are coming in that GSUSA is downgrading Volunteer Systems 2.0 to get to the bottom of its troubles:

2 COMMENTS :

  1. By Cheryl on

    Hope they downgrade the fee they charge councils – perhaps refunds are due? (Referencing Vol. Sys.) Sooo we’re headed to version 1.5?

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    1. By GSWAC-Amy (Post author) on

      I have no idea what they are doing. I was just making a bad joke.

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