Findlay-Campfire, Inc., records

The Findlay-Campfire, Inc., Collection illustrates aspects of the social development of women in northwest Ohio through their involvement in a popular youth organization. The collection includes a scrapbook kept by a group from the Maumee Valley Camp Fire branch in 1913, three years after the national organization was founded. The book provides information on the function and activities of the group and concerns of its members.

Printed material within the collection includes membership campaign posters, membership handbooks, and song sheets. They are useful to researchers interested in the history of the organization. In addition, these publications are indicators of girls' role, real and perceived, and women in American society in the twentieth century. It is especially enlightening to compare the two handbooks which show the development and modernization of the movement within a forty-eight year time span. Photographic material in the collection similarly documents the members of local Camp Fire groups and their activities.