Record group RG12 - Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology records

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Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology records

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CA ON00259 RG12

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  • 1903-1956 (Creation)
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    Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology

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12 boxes of textual and photographic records

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(1912-1955)

Administrative history

The Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology (ROMA) was created in 1912 by a bill in the Ontario legislature, ‘An act to provide for the establishment of provincial museum’, known as ‘The Royal Ontario Museum Act. By-laws under that act allowed departments of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) to be designated as the ‘Royal Ontario Museum of…’. The ROMA was one of the five museums making up the Royal Ontario Museum.

The ROM was controlled and managed by a Board of Trustees, with each department headed by a director. Charles Trick Currelly was the first director of ROMA. In 1955 the ROM was reorganized, and the separate museums became divisions, with ROMA becoming the division of Art and Architecture, supervised by a head.

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Series consists of records relating to the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, prior to the 1955 amalgamation. Most of the documents in the first half of the series are from C.T. Currelly. Also included are records relating to the controversy over the Beardmore Relics, records from George Crofts, and various field notes.

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This record group is arranged into the following sub-series:
RG12.1: History [empty as of November, 1994]
RG12.2: Annual reports of the ROMA and other museums
RG12.3: C.T. Currelly’s incoming and outgoing correspondence
RG12.4: Financial accounts
RG12.5: Accession records
RG12.6: Internal memoranda
RG12.7: Newspaper clippings
RG12.8: Photographic material
RG12.9: Beardmore relics. Note: File Beardmore Relics – General Correspondence 1969-1974 contains correspondence regarding the donation of O. C. Elliot’s papers to the ROM.
RG12.10: George Crofts collection
RG12.11: Pound Village site
RG12.12: Peruvian textile collections
RG12.13: Miscellaneous records

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      Final

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      3/3/2023 E. Thomas (Creation)

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