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Boy Scouts -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Bryce W. Anderson papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230216423]
Identifier: MSS 1806
Scope and Contents

Copies of the "Signal Fire" publication, photocopy of a map of Utah dating from 1878, letters, and magazine articles. The materials relate to Anderson's work as an editor and to his work with the Boy Scouts, especially the "Loan Scouts." This group of scouts would write to boys in rural areas to help them to have scouting contacts.

Dates: 1878-1974

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Gilwell collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232558566]
Identifier: MSS 8680
Scope and Contents Collection contains materials relating to the lives of Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Gilwell, and his wife Olave, as well as on The Scout Association in 1910. Materials are scans or digital reproductions of photographs, business and personal correspondence even with European royalty and nobility, books and published articles, reports or manuals, notes, and other ephemera and information relating to the Baden-Powell family, the development of the scouting movement, and...
Dates: approximately 1797-2015

Arthur William Sadler collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3704
Scope and Contents This collection contains 186 black and white and color photographs relating to Arthur William Sadler and his involvement with the Boy Scouts. Photographs of people and places include the Camp Lillenthal and Camp Royaneh in San Francisco, California (1931), the Spring Lake Scout Troop at Utah Lake (1918), the National Scout Jamboree (1969 and 1973), Troop 228 from Caldwell, Ray Spackman, and San Francisco Stake Missionaries, Arthur William Sadler with his Woodbridge (1975), the San Francisco...
Dates: 1918-1978

Arthur William Sadler papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1847
Scope and Contents

A biography, newspaper clippings, correspondence, diaries, speeches, an autobiography in the form of a scrapbook, and certificates. The materials relate to Sadler, his extensive involvement with the Boy Scouts, and his missions for the Mormon Church in England and in San Francisco, California.

Dates: 1921-1978