Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Dian Fossey fonds
General material designation
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Fonds
Reference code
RC0208
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
1955-1987 (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
12.5 cm of textual records.
5 photographs: colour.
1 video recording.
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Dian Fossey, primatologist, educator, and author, was born in San Francisco, California, on 16 January 1932. She was educated at San Jose State College (B.A, 1954) and Cambridge University (Ph.D., 1976). With the encouragement of Louis Leakey she founded the Karsoke Research Centre in 1967 in Rwanda to study mountain gorillas. She made several television appearances on programs such as National Geographic, wrote many journal and magazine articles and published a book, Gorillas in the Mist (1983). She was murdered in late December 1985 in Ruhengeri, Rwanda.
Custodial history
Scope and content
The fonds consists of manuscripts and articles, including typescript drafts of Gorillas in the Mist; field notes; correspondence; photographs; materials relating to the Digit Fund (named after one of the gorillas). The third accrual consists of a compilation video of footage about Dian Fossey. It may have been compiled by Georgianne Nienaber, who wrote Fossey’s biography.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Most of the material was acquired from Farley Mowat in 1990. It was used by Farley Mowat for his own book about Fossey, Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey (1987). A second accrual of a single letter from Fossey (31-2006) was acquired from Alan Mulholland in 2006. The provenance of the third accrual is unknown; it was added to the collection in 2015.
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Access restrictions to the first accrual (folders 1 to 50) have expired. Access to the second accrual (folder 51) is restricted until 2020; a photocopy with excised portions is available in folder 51b.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Associated materials
Accruals
Further accruals are not expected.
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Control area
Description record identifier
RC0208
