October is American Archives Month.

While doing research in an archival collection, have you ever come across intriguing, but completely off-topic items that have nothing to do with your research? For example, while working with the Edward Perry Churchill collection I found a research paper he wrote in 1916 on “The Learning of a Maze by Goldfish.” What do you think? Did the goldfish figure out the maze?

This research paper can be found in the Printed Material series, Box 2, Edward Perry Churchill papers.

Happy Archives Month