10 collections related to Animal rights

The Animal Rights Network Records contains correspondence, office files, reports, clippings, publications, mailings, and audiovisual resources documenting the activities of the Animal Rights Network in advocating for the ethical and humane treatment of animals. Issues addressed by the organization include live animal experimentation, exploitation of animals for sport and entertainment, intensive breeding and slaughter of domestic animals for food, and irresponsible pet ownership. The Animal Rights Network (ARN) published a bimonthly magazine, The Animals' Agenda, which contained original content and also served to assist smaller animal rights organizations network with members of the animal rights community, as well as maintained a library and archives component. ARN encouraged its members to collect and maintain their own collections documenting the animal rights and animal welfare movements, and many members donated their collections to ARN. The bulk of the material dates from the 1950s to 1990s. In 1979, several Connecticut-based animal rights activists withdrew from Friends of Animals, Inc., to found the Animal Rights Network (ARN). ARN joined forces with the animal rights magazine Agenda, and together they worked to unite local, national, and international animal rights groups to achieve common goals. ARN's main objectives incorporated the central issues confronting the animal rights movement. These objectives included live animal experimentation, exploitation of animals for sport and entertainment, intensive breeding and slaughter of domestic animals for food, and irresponsible pet ownership. The group used its financial resources to develop advertising campaigns and publications in order to educate the public about animal rights issues. In 2001, the board of directors determined that the role of ARN as a movement building and networking tool was no longer necessary, and formed a new organization called the Institute for Animals and Society (IAS) to advance animal advocacy issues in public policy development by conducting scholarly research and analysis, providing education and training, and fostering cooperation with other social justice movements and interests. IAS merged with Society and Animals Forum to create the Animals and Society Institute in 2005. Less

Educational publications, advertisements, informational pamphlets, correspondence, subscription forms and ephemera related to animal rights and animal welfare, especially anti-vivisection. This collection appears to originate from the West of England, with a particular focus on the Manchester area. However, the collection also contains material from throughout the United Kingdom and a few materials from the United States. Most of the material was produced and distributed by organizations such as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports, National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports, the Victoria Street Society for the Abolition of Vivisection, and others. Also included are Catholic, Quaker, and other religious pamphlets. The collection contains items written by Frances Power Cobbe, Henry Stephens Salt, H. E. Bates, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells. Members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf and Clive Bell who are listed as subscribers to some groups, are represented here. There is also material related to and designed by cartoonist and animal rights activist Cyril Kenneth Bird, who went by the pen name 'Fougasse.' The material ranges in date from the 1870s to the 1950s and includes a quantity of material from the interwar period and the era surrounding and following World War II. Although anti-vivisection and animal rights were a concern in the United Kingdom as early as the eighteenth century, the first anti-cruelty law, "The Animal Protection Act" was passed in 1822, outlawing cruelty to cattle, horses, and sheep. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anmials was formed two years later and had the distinction of being the first animal welfare society in the world, as well as the first law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom. In 1840, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals received the support of Queen Victoria and adopted the name the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Anti-vivisection movements increased in response to an increase in scientific and medical experimentation with mammals in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Despite the commonly held belief that animal rights reemerged as a primary concern in the 1970s, groups advocating for the rights and well-being of animals continued from the nineteeth century into the era following World War II with little stagnation. Less

The Arnold Arluke Collection of Animal Protection Printed Materials contains "Our Dumb Animals" journals, booklets, legal papers, letters and cards realted to animal rights and animal welfare. The collection ranges in date from 1876 to 1966. Arnold Arluke is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University. He is a senior scholar at the Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy. His research areas include, but are not limited to, human-animal relations, social psychology, and visual studies. Arluke has published more than 100 articles and 12 books regarding human-animal relations. Less

The Bernard Unti Book and Ephemera Collection on Animal Studies contains books, pamphlets, ephemera, and material culture objects tied to the history of the kindness-to-animals ethic, organized animal protection, vegetarianism, anti-vivisection and related concerns. The majority of the collection is comprised of books with many dating to the 1800s and early 20th Century. Bernard Unti, Ph.D., is an animal rights and welfare advocate who served as Senior Policy Adviser and Special Assistant to the President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) from 2004 to 2021. Unti was then hired as Senior Principal Strategist in Communications for the HSUS. Unti is the author of Protecting All Animals: A Fifty-Year History of The Humane Society of the United States (2004), which covers the history of the HSUS from its creation to the early twentieth century. Unti has also written a number of essays and articles on animal cruelty as a historical and contemporary issue. In addition to working for the HSUS and Humane Society International, he worked at the Animal Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) in various positions from 1985 to 1992, including the position of Executive Director. Less

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) Records include original correspondence, publications, animal rights research, legislative files, voting ballots, reports, grants, memorabilia, and photographs dating from 1918, with the bulk of the records from the 1960s to the 2010s. These materials encompass the full range of the organization's activities in promoting the protection of companion animals, farm animals, animals in laboratories, and wildlife. Additionally, the records reflect the organization’s special focus on public policy, humane education, and direct animal care work. Researchers should be advised that SCRC staff has identified materials in this collection that depict animal cruelty and abuse. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), originally known as the National Humane Society, is an animal welfare and rights nonprofit organization that was first formed in 1954 by former members of the American Humane Association (AHA). The organization committed itself to preventing cruelty to animals of all kinds as a part of the national animal humane movement. Since 1954, the HSUS has expanded its operations to include animal rights and welfare advocacy, education, legislation, research, investigation, and field services. The HSUS has been instrumental in lobbying for federal animal rights and welfare legislation, including the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958, the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966, and the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act of 2006. For a more comprehensive historical timeline and a list of abbreviations related to the HSUS, refer to the document available online. Less

The Joellen Secondo Collection of Animal Protection Materials contain publications and a dog collar dating from 1896 through 1917. More specifically, these publications include five issues of “Our Dumb Animals,” a monthly periodical published by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The collection encompasses the 1904 January issue of “The Ladies’ World” magazine with an article entitled “Pets for Women.” Also included is a dog collar with metal plaques reading: J. W. to K. G and Czar Nicholas/Kitty Gordon/145 Falmouth St/Manhattan Beach (Kitty Gordon was an actor in the early 20th century. In 1916, she acquired a Russian wolfhound named Czar Nicholas). Finally, the collection contains “Exercises for Schools in Massachusetts,” a pamphlet published by the American Humane Education Society in 1917. Joellen Secondo has served as a Companion Animals and Engagement Specialist at Humane Society International. Humane Society International (HIS) was created in 1991 as an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and since then pursues animal rights and welfare work globally. It implements programs in Asia, Africa, and Americas. More specifically, the HIS operates to foster the human-animal bond, protect wildlife, rescue cats and dogs, and promote animal-free testing and research, and fight cruelty against animals. Less

The items in this collection were assembled by John Ptak and relate to animal protection issues in the United States. John Ptak was the proprietor of J. F. Ptak Books, Maps, and Prints in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The store specialized in used, rare, and antiquarian manuscripts, reprints, journals, maps, and prints in mathematics and the sciences. He relocated to Hendersonville, North Carolina and operates JF Ptak Science Books. Less

The Rynn Berry Jr. Papers include record files, books, periodicals, articles taken from periodicals, booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, manuscripts, writing drafts, research notes, interview transcripts, facsimiles, drawings, photographs, correspondence, audio recordings, video recordings, and computer disks, relating to Rynn Berry's interests in vegetarianism, veganism, and animal rights. Rynn Berry, Jr. was an author, lecturer, and activist who dedicated his life to increasing public awareness on vegetarianism, veganism, animal rights, and the religious and ethical aspects of these topics. He was regarded as an expert on the history of vegetarianism, and he wrote many books, articles, book entries, in addition to giving lectures and participating in discussion panels. Less

Wayne Besenty Collection of Animal Protection Materials contain a board game, badges, journals, photos, documents, and memorabilia dating from 1819 through 1997. While the largest part of the collection encompasses records related to the activities of the West Los Angeles Humane Society, it also includes a rich body of materials about other humane societies and organizations. The collection also contains some writings and personal items of Wayne and Thomas Besenty. Wayne M. Besenty (1940–2003) was an Animal Control Officer in Long Beach, CA for over 30 years. Throughout his career, he collected materials related to animal welfare and humane societies. After his death, his colleague Nancy Cotton inherited his collection and later donated to the Special Collections Research Center. Less