At the Girl Scout headquarters in Orlando, an exhibit called the Women's History and Cultural Center compiles a huge collection of vintage memorabilia that will take you on a journey through the organization's history.The exhibit also features inspirational women throughout history and displays about Girl Scouting from all over the world.Thousands of items, from the original Brownie cameras to an elaborate Girl Scout quilt, took 17 years to collect, and it is a visual history of the organization that started in 1912 with the goal of making girls self-reliant, a radical concept for the times."They were learning how to paint and how to basically marry a man," Lydia Sealey with Girl Scouts of Citrus said.Did you know the first Girl Scout uniform was actually blue? By 1919, it switched to khaki, legend has it, to hide the dirt better. But the wackiest-looking uniform came out in the 1980s. "I personally know about the uniform in the ‘60s,” WESH 2's Michelle Meredith said. Meredith had her very own uniform in the 1960s as an Air Force brat in the Panama Canal Zone.There are vintage dolls, and vintage Girl Scout cookie boxes, and in the early days, Girl Scout cookies were baked by the girls themselves. "This is the original recipe for the Girl Scout shortbread cookie, so take a picture," Sealey said.In the beginning, they also made their own uniforms.There are records with Girl Scout songs, Girl Scout campsites, original sleeping bags, a bugle used to play reveille, and Girl Scout camping bloomers because back in the day, they couldn't wear shorts. There is also a little Brownie bathing suit that they used when they were camping and it has a little emblem on it.The museum also boasts a collection of memorabilia from a Girl Scout in Brevard County. Legend has it she was so proud of her Girl Scout roots that she wore her uniform when she was in her nineties.It's a flash from the past and an archive of an organization that has survived over a century, a century in an ever-changing world.Top headlines:Officials: Partial power outage impacts baggage operations at Orlando International Airport'Something grabbed me on the leg': Man recounts being bitten by gator outside Daytona Beach homeDeputies: Human remains found believed to belong to Florida woman missing since 2018