I was a brownie and a girl scout..I have not heard of the Camp Fire Girls,
I'm also Baptist, so we never had this kind of group in Sunday School.
Is this familiar to any of you?
Time frame was probably mid-1920's
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Autographed & scribbled on by my first cousin (twice removed)
Eula Fitzhugh (1911-1995)
I would guess she was writing down true loves,
but Lonnie was her first cousin and
I have not found the other boys yet.
She married none of them.
sharing with Sepia Saturday, click on photo to see other entries
18 comments:
i was both a brownie and a girl scout. i think i have heard of "camp fire girls", maybe!! i was always so proud of my sash and my patches!!
the brochure is so interesting, i don't remember those being connected to bible studies!!
New to me. Brownies and Girl Guides I knew. I also never knew any of my cousins - let alone any at a further remove.
Quite a bit of history here.
I have heard of the Camp Fire Girls, but I can't say I know anything about them.
I had to read all of the comments. I loved this so much. My Mom was a campfire girl. They used all of these neat beads for badges. I loved to hold it and look at it. So when I was old enough, instead of a brownie you became a bluebird. I was a bluebird. I don't think it was ever as popular as girl scouts. But I thought they had cuter uniforms. My Mom had accomplished all of the goals and she was such a wonderful woman when it came to all that this pamphlet espoused. I am so glad you shared it.
Also thank you so much for leaving a comment on my blog. I am like you, if a plant won't make it outside, its not for me. I sure loved the area in Arkansas around Hot Springs. What a beautiful place.
In some of my schools I knew girls who were Campfire Girls. They had a uniform of red and blue I think that wasn't like the image of the girl in your brochure. The Campfire Girls started in about 1911-12 in Vermont at the same time the Girl Scouts were formed in Savannah, GA. Both were designed to give girls the same outdoor experience that the Boys Scouts provided boys. It was supposed to be a nonsectarian and multi-cultural organization and for a while it had more members than the Girls Scouts. It's still active and now includes boys too.
I had heard of Camp Fire Girls, but didn't know anything about it.
I was a Brownie for several months and then I quit.
When I was in the lower grade in Pittsburg, California, I was a member of Blue Birds, which is a younger version of Camp Fire. Then we moved, and all there was to join was Junior Scouts, so, I was a Junior and Cadette Scout.
I was a Brownie and a Girl Scout, the Camp Fire girls may have been before my time. Great post for the theme! Take care, have a great day and a wonderful week.
Yes, I've heard of Camp Fire Girls. I was in Bluebirds for a short while. Love old things like this. Delightful for you to have come across it in your keepsakes.
Happy August days.
~Sheri
I love those old photographs, especially the first one. Interesting info. too. I came back to thank you for your comment, and after reading about your 106 degrees, ugh! I hope you get to stay nice and cool with the air-conditioner on.
I never did brownies either and I've never heard of campfire girls but I was briefly a part of girls brigade.
I was a Brownie and a Girl Scout, but had friends who were Bluebirds and Camp Fire Girls and I, too, thought their uniforms in red, white, & blue, were cuter. I think they were very much like the Girl Scouts in what they did, but never really knew that much about the organization.
New to me ...
Interesting, thank you.
All the best Jan
I have also heard of Campfire Girls, although was a Brownie and Girl Scout. Nice to have a brochure with a relative's signature!
I was a brownie and girl guide. It seems your cousin had views about ironing.
I was a brownie and I see in the comments lots of us were! What a neat publication. It's a treasure!
Love the antique paper stuff! And I was a Campfire Girl (almost that long ago ;:) -- the younger ones were Bluebirds. You earned beads instead of badges, but a lot like Scouts. I'm not sure either still exist. My daughter was in Brownies and Girl Scouts and I don't think CampFire was offered here at that tilme (don't know about back in my home town.) I'm not Baptist, but I remember a friend who was in Awana Club at her Baptist Church; she said it was "instead of CampFire Girls"...
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