Animal Advocates Oral History Collection, 1999-2004
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- OHAC
- Bib ID:
- 11731690 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Recording Animal Advocacy
- Repository:
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Physical Description:
- 14 volumes (Transcripts); 77 audiocassettes; 4 compact disks; 3.5 Linear Feet; 110 Gigabytes
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
-
Transcripts and attachments are located onsite. Interview audio cassettes and compact disks are located offsite.
Access: Open.
Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list.
Description
Scope and Content
The Animal Advocates Oral History Collection contains fourteen interviews with individuals who were involved in different areas of the movement to protect animals. The interviews largely focus on activities during the 1970s and 1980s, but there is also significant analysis of connections with earlier advocacy for animals and commentary on issues at the time of the interviews. Aspects of animal protection discussed include animal shelters, opposition to vivisection and scientific testing on animals, vegetarianism and veganism, treatment of agricultural animals, and environmentalism. Common themes addressed include connections between violence towards animals and violence towards humans, connections with other social justice movements, interactions between different organizations, and the religious and ethical backgrounds of narrators. There is a particular focus on activities of people and organizations in New England. Many interviews include photographs and supplemental material, such as books, publications from animal rights organizations, writings by narrators, and other ephemera. In 2015-2016, digital audio was created from all interview cassettes.
Interviewees in the collection are Willard Anderson, Theadora Capaldo, Robert Cummings, Ann Cottrell Free, Walter Kilroy, John F. Kullberg, Carter Luke, Sandra Rae Larson, Jim Mason, F. Barbara Orlans, Tom Regan, Margaret "Peggy" Moreland Stathos, Ethel Thurston, and Peter Singer.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged in one series. Interviews are arranged alphabetically by narrator's last name.
Using the Collection
Access Restrictions
Transcripts and attachments are located onsite. Interview audio cassettes and compact disks are located offsite.
Access: Open.
Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright by Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2016.
Custodial History
The collection's interviews were conducted by the non-profit Recording Animal Advocacy, and most collection material was deposited at Columbia University in 2001. Additional materials were deposited in 2015 and 2016.
Acquisition
Recording Animal Advocacy, Inc. Gift 2001 2001.2002.M055
Carmen Lee, Gift 2015
Carmen Lee, Gift 2016
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Oral History Archives at Columbia
Processing Information
Finding aid written by David A. Olson, compiling description accompanying transcripts and additional description by Deidre B. Flowers, 2016.
Revision Description
2016-03-15 xml document instance created by David A. Olson
2019-06-08 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Historical Note
The Animal Advocates Oral History Project was conducted between 1999 and 2004 to document the activities of individuals and organizations that had fought for the protection of animals in the preceding decades. The 1970s and 1980s saw the publication of groundbreaking books, new articulations of ethical frameworks, and increased national publicity for animal rights and protection. The project was undertaken by the non-profit organization Recording Animal Advocacy as the movement entered a more introspective phase in the 1990s, and members began asking questions about their past that traditional archival sources did not readily address. The project sought to examine the genesis and development of ethical frameworks, the trajectories of different collective actions, how the movements of the 1970s and 1980s continued or differed from earlier movements for the treatment of animals, and the role that individuals played in shaping the movement.
Subject Headings
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