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DISPLAY ROOM
The Display Room contains our most diversified collection of memorabilia. We have a rare and quite complete collection of books by Ernest Thompson Seton, dating back to 1899. Excerpts taken from these books were incorporated into the first Boy Scout Handbook. Books by Dan Beard date back to 1882. The Development of the Scout Handbook and Merit Badge Program is quite interesting. Scouting for Boys by Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 1908, had no standard advancement tests. Then came Boy Scouts of America by Ernest Thompson Seton and Lieut-General Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, K.C.B., 1910. Ernest Thompson Seton was authorized to put together a temporary Scout Handbook. This he did by taking part of the 1908 Scouting for Boys by Baden-Powell and part from his Manual of Woodcraft Indians, adding the outline for the American Boy Scout program. This included Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class and the 14 English merit badges. oy Scouts by John L. Alexander, illustrated by Gordon Grant, August 1911, called The Tapioca Book, (on display). It contained Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class requirements and six merit badges. Then came the Boy Scouts of America, Handbook for Boys, 1911. This was the first complete official edition of the American program, in August 1911. It was followed by Boy Scouts of America, Handbook for Boys, and Handbook for Boys, BSA, 1929. On display are Badge books dating back to 1925. There is Bird Study 1925, which can be compared to the 1969 to present version. Pioneering 1928, had only a design change. Pathfinding 1930, was discontinued in 1952. Handicraft 1930, was changed to Home Repairs in 1943. Rocks and Minerals 1937, was Mining previously from 1911-1937. There are Boy Scout Handbooks from 1910 through 1998. Boys Life Magazines date back to the 1920's and 1930's. There are donated scouting items from personal collections; sterling silver Norman Rockwell coins; Otis Chidester's personal collection of scouting die casts; his pins and personal memoribilia; donated pins of all categories; English and American Sea Scout display; a bugle used the first summer Camp Lawton was opened in 1921; uniforms belonging to Otis and others dating back to the teens and forward are all on display. The walls have rotating displays of Pimarees (American and Mexican Scouting), Order of the Arrow, World Scouting, etc.
The wall displays will be rotated, depicting various scouting themes such as Order of the Arrow, Camporees/Jamborees, etc.
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