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Philadelphia Girl Scouts Virginia Marley and Mildred Meyer baking cookies, November 1932.
Credit: Courtesy of the Girls Scouts of USA, Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania
In 1932, Virginia Marley and Mildred Meyer of Girl Scout Troop 12 in Overbrook posed for this photograph while baking cookies for Philadelphia day nurseries to promote a United Campaign to raise $9 million for relief. Two years later, Keebler-Wyl in Philadelphia would bake 100,000 boxes of the first commercially produced Girl Scout Cookie, a vanilla cookie in the form of a trefoil, the Girl Scout symbol.