Cats and Dogs

%xmlchars; ]> mc00364 Preliminary Guide to the Claire Necker Cat Collection, 1850s - 1990s Processed by: In process;machine-readable finding aid created by: Dawne E. Howard North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center 2005 Machine-readable finding aid derived from xml authoring program Finding aid written in English. Preliminary Guide to the Claire Necker Cat Collection, 1850s - 1990s MC 364 North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center Contact Information: &ncsuaddr; Processed by In process Encoded by Dawne E. Howard, September 2005 Descriptive Summary North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center Necker, Claire Claire Necker cat collection, 1850s - 1990s MC 364 237158 The Claire Necker cat collection contains books, magazines, pamphlets, phonograph records, wallpaper, posters, original artwork, sketchbooks, collectibles, and artifacts related to cats. The collection primarily consists of books, including nineteenth century texts, out-of-print editions, and foreign-language materials. There are also thousands of cat collectibles, ranging from cat-themed towels and crockery to sculptures, children's toys, and prints. Claire Necker is best known for her writings about cats. Her works include Cats and Dogs (A. S. Barnes, 1969), The Natural History of Cats (Delta, 1970), Supernatural Cats; An Anthology (Doubleday, 1972), and The Cat's Got Our Tongue (Scarecrow Press, 1973). For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff. English Information for Users Restrictions to Access

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Acquisitions Information

Manuscript materials purchased for the NCSU Libraries by various anonymous donors, 2003 (Accession no. 2003-0004).

Provenance

Previously maintained by the Animal Rights Network (ARN).

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Claire Necker cat collection, MC 364, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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Biographical Note

Claire Kral Necker was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1917. She earned her master's degree in Animal Ecology from Northwestern University in 1938. After graduation, Necker was a museum curator of zoology from 1938 to 1940, a physicist from 1944 to 1949, and a chemist from 1949 to 1952. Necker was a partner in an antiquarian book business from 1942 to 1959 and a book cataloger at the Lake Hill Public Library in Indiana from 1969 to 1975. In 1939, she married librarian Walter L. Necker. The couple divorced in 1968.

Necker is best known for her writings about cats. In 1969, she published her first book, Cats and Dogs (A. S. Barnes, 1969). Necker's other works include The Natural History of Cats (Delta, 1970), Supernatural Cats; An Anthology (Doubleday, 1972), Four Centuries of Cat Books (Scarecrow Press, 1972), and The Cat's Got Our Tongue (Scarecrow Press, 1973). Necker focused on cats in order to establish a "definitive" history on the species.

Scope and Content Note

The Claire Necker cat collection contains books, magazines, pamphlets, phonograph records, wallpaper, posters, original artwork, sketchbooks, collectibles, and artifacts related to cats. The collection primarily consists of books about cats, including nineteenth century texts, out-of-print editions, and foreign-language materials. There are also thousands of cat collectibles, ranging from cat-themed towels and crockery to sculptures, children's toys, and prints.

Organization of the Collection

To be determined.

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