Fonds 74-1003 - Serpent Mounds Foundation of Peterborough fonds

Title and statement of responsibility area

Title proper

Serpent Mounds Foundation of Peterborough fonds

Title notes

  • Source of title proper: Title based on the organization which created the fonds.

Level of description

Fonds

Reference code

74-1003

Dates of creation area

Date(s)

  • Jan. 1956-May 1956 (Creation)
    Creator
    Serpent Mounds Foundation

Physical description area

Physical description

1 folder

Archival description area

Name of creator

Administrative history

The Serpent Mounds Foundation of Peterborough was founded March 22, 1956, as a non-profit organization. The founding members of the foundation all had a common belief in the ethnological and archaeological importance of the Peterborough Serpent MoundsRead more

Custodial history

The fonds was created by, and belonged to the Serpent Mounds Foundation of Peterborough.

Scope and content

The fonds consists of mimeograph and typescript copies of minutes, an outline of history and purposes of the Foundation, and two papers on the Serpent Mounds, at Rice Lake, one of which is by William Richard Adams of Bloomington, Indiana.

Notes area

Immediate source of acquisition

The fonds was donated by Professor Kenneth E. Kidd, of Trent University, one of the founding members of the Serpent Mounds Foundation of Peterborough, to the Trent University Archives.

Restrictions on access

None

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