Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on the organization which created the fonds.
Level of description
Repository
Reference code
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
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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 Mounds… Read 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