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Scope and Contents

Two scrapbooks, 1933 and 1935, kept by Donald C. Kidder, a teenage Boy Scout with Troop 13, and later Troop 33, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The scrapbooks contain many labeled photographs that document camp activities, postcards written by Donald addressed to his mother, miscellaneous pamphlets and clippings, a Star Scout certificate and a First Class Buckskin book, badge awards, newsletters, etc. Also includes some detailed essays by Kidder, relating to his projects.