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Noreen and Harriett Watts Camp Fire Girls Collection, 1917-1985View associated digital content.

Predominant Dates: 1956-1961
The Noreen and Harriett Watts Camp Fire Girls Collection documents the activities, membership, and organizational structure of a Blue Birds and Camp Fire Girls troop headquartered in Burbank, California. The collection consists predominantly of two scrapbooks kept by Noreen Watts and Harriett Watts, her mother and “guardian” of her daughter’s troop. Also included in the collection are a second edition Camp Fire Girls Book, published in 1947; a handmade, wooden scrapbook cover; and financial records documenting membership dues and other accounts payable for a Camp Fire Girls troop in Portland, Oregon from 1917 to 1919.
ID: MSS CampFireGirls
Extent: 0.75 cubic feet
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Scope and Content Notes
Biographical / Historical Notes
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Statement on Description:

We acknowledge that materials in SCARC collections and the language that describes them may be harmful.  We are actively working to address our descriptive practices; for more information please see our SCARC Anti-Racist Actions Statement online.

An image included in this collection features children in blackface. We acknowledge the racism represented by this image and the harm it may cause our users. Providing access to these historical materials does not endorse any attitudes or behavior depicted therein.

[Date of acknowledgement: April 2022]

Arrangement
Preferred Citation: Noreen and Harriett Watts Camp Fire Girls Collection (MSS CampFireGirls), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Acquisition Note: Collection was purchased in June 2018.
Acquired: 2018.
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