Animal Welfare Institute Records 1930s-2002

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Animal Welfare Institute Records, 1930s-2002

Animal Welfare Institute Records 1930s-2002

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00344

The records of the Animal Welfare Institute include administrative files of both the AWI and SAPL, subject files on animals the organization works to protect, files on legislation that SAPL has been involved with, files on the work of other animal rights groups, subject files on regional activities, photographs, publications, books, and audiovisual materials. Materials of the organization range in date from its founding in the early 1950s to the early 2000s; other materials in the collection date back to the 1930s. The Animal Welfare Institute was created in 1951 as a non-profit, charitable organization focused on reducing the amount of suffering inflicted on animals by humans. The AWI continues to be active in these endeavors today, working to reduce animal cruelty in captive and domestic situations--including farming and laboratories--and also working to protect the rights of animals living in the wild, both on land and in the water.

555.5 Linear feet

North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Center