Vivisection scrapbooks

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Date [inclusive]:
1908, 1910-14, 1920-21, 1923
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
1.35 cubic feet (8 volumes)
Collections:
Access:

Researchers must use microfilm.

Call Number:
M-0190
Control Number:
5787665
Abstract:

Scrapbooks of printed material, mostly newspaper and magazine clippings, documenting the controversy over the role of animal vivisection in biomedical research. The scrapbooks focus heavily on the battle over proposed legislation in several states that would have criminalized animal vivisection of any sort. Contents are almost exclusively from American publications, but are from throughout the country.

Cite as:
Vivisection Scrapbooks, Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library.
Arrangement:

List of volumes

v.1 1908
v.2 1910
v.3 1911
v.4 1912
v.5 1913
v.6 1914
v.7 1921-1922
v.8 1921-1923

Also available on microfilm.

Subjects:
Animal Welfare
Medicine, Experimental
Scrapbooks
Vivisection
Related Records:

Additional material on late 19th-early 20th century efforts by biomedical scientists to oppose restrictions on the use animal vivisection in research can also be found in Archives and Special Collections' Vivisection Papers and Frederic Schiller Lee Papers. In addition, there are a large number of anti-vivisection publications in the both Special Collections and in the general Health Sciences Library collection. This material is accessible through CLIO.

Provenance:

Internal evidence suggests these scrapbooks were compiled either by or under the supervision of Frederic Schiller Lee (1859-1939), professor of physiology at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University and a leading opponent of attempts to restrict the use of animal vivisection in biomedical research.