Girl Scouts practice archery at Camp Sunset Lake, Portage County, Wisconsin, ca. 1932. And a drumroll please for our top post of the year! You all dug this one for the tough-chick, Hunger Games-esque vibe of these 1930s Girl Scout archers. A reblog from the great coolchicksfromhistory scored us some extra views. Check out all of our top 12 posts in 2012. gracefree said: If there’s one thing I’ve almost always wanted to learn….It’s archery. (I mean, all badasses know how to shoot, right?) lindenn said: if we shot arrows, I’d have been a girl scout birdwings said: I went to girl scout summer camp during my middle school years, and the one time we did archery, I hated it and proceeded to (purposely) suck at it. Wish I knew how to shoot a flaming arrow now. Thanks, Katniss. bloolips said: girl scouts in the 1930s = badass al3ayla said: Why wasn’t my girl scout troop this awesome?! via: McMillan Memorial Library
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Girl Scouts practice archery at Camp Sunset Lake, Portage County, Wisconsin, ca. 1932.

And a drumroll please for our top post of the year! You all dug this one for the tough-chick, Hunger Games-esque vibe of these 1930s Girl Scout archers. A reblog from the great coolchicksfromhistory scored us some extra views.

Check out all of our top 12 posts in 2012.

gracefree said: If there’s one thing I’ve almost always wanted to learn….It’s archery. (I mean, all badasses know how to shoot, right?)

lindenn said: if we shot arrows, I’d have been a girl scout

birdwings said: I went to girl scout summer camp during my middle school years, and the one time we did archery, I hated it and proceeded to (purposely) suck at it. Wish I knew how to shoot a flaming arrow now. Thanks, Katniss.

bloolips said: girl scouts in the 1930s = badass

al3ayla said: Why wasn’t my girl scout troop this awesome?!

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Mayor Henry Maier sampling Girl Scout cookies, Milwaukee, 1961. The Girl Scouts celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2012. On March 12, 1912, Juliette Gordon Low, granddaughter and namesake of early Wisconsin pioneer Juliette Magill Kinzie, organized the first meeting of Girl Scouts (then known as Girl Guides) in Savannah, Georgia. This photo of Milwaukee’s mayor sharing cookies with Girl Scout Nancy Rehfeldt was published in the Milwaukee Journal in 1961. via: Milwaukee Mayors collection, Milwaukee Public Library
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Mayor Henry Maier sampling Girl Scout cookies, Milwaukee, 1961.

The Girl Scouts celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2012. On March 12, 1912, Juliette Gordon Low, granddaughter and namesake of early Wisconsin pioneer Juliette Magill Kinzie, organized the first meeting of Girl Scouts (then known as Girl Guides) in Savannah, Georgia.

This photo of Milwaukee’s mayor sharing cookies with Girl Scout Nancy Rehfeldt was published in the Milwaukee Journal in 1961.

via: Milwaukee Mayors collection, Milwaukee Public Library

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