Vivisection pamphlets, [ca. 1870-1932].

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Vivisection pamphlets, [ca. 1870-1932].

Pamphlets, broadsides, cards, clippings, and periodical issues, including Abolitionist, Animal world, Animals' friend, Animals' guardian, Anti-vivisection, Herald of the Golden Age, Humanity, Journal of zoophily, Our animal friends, and Zoophilist and animals' defender. Many of the pamphlets were issued by humane and anti-vivisection societies, including the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the American Humane Association, the National Anti-Vivisection Society, the American Anti-Vivisection Society, and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. Included also are letters and petitions to New York Assemblyman James R. Robinson on a proposed anti-vivisection bill, 1932.

5 v. ; ca. 250 unbound items.

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American Humane Association

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Robinson, James Roper

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