Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Donald C. Kidder Scrapbooks, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 07/29/2009.

Processing Information

Accessioned and minimally processed in July 2009 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist, with further rehousing by KelseyKavanaugh, SCRC staff, in September 2009.

Biographical Note

Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Donald C. Kidder">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Donald C. Kidder</a>.

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.

Index Terms

Corporate Name:

• Boy Scouts of America

Genre/Form of Material:

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks

Topical Term:

• Postcards.
• Teenage boys--Minnesota
• Teenagers--Social life and customs

Additional Information