{"id":4295,"date":"2017-11-17T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:55:37","slug":"animals-in-the-archives-american-anti-vivisection-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2017\/11\/17\/animals-in-the-archives-american-anti-vivisection-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals in the Archives: American Anti-Vivisection Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Display at \u201cAnimals in the Archives\u201d event, October 25, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Each year in October, the Special Collections Research Center <\/a>(SCRC) celebrates American Archives Month through dedicated programming that raises awareness about the value of archives. This year, the SCRC participated in the Archives Month Philly <\/a>sponsored event, \u201cAnimals in the Archives,\u201d at the Free Library of Philadelphia Parkway Central Library. The event featured over a dozen Philadelphia-area institutions including the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Presbyterian Historical Society, The Stoogeum, and the William Way LGBT Community Center, each of which brought along archival material and hands-on activities, all with animal related content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the event, the SCRC featured publications, photographs, and printed materials from the archives of two local organizations founded in the 19th century, The Philadelphia Zoo and the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS). Throughout their existence, \u201cAmerica\u2019s First Zoo\u201d and AAVS have sought to educate the public about animals and animal welfare through organized programs. One of those programs was the Miss B\u2019Kind Animal Protection Club, started in 1927 by AAVS Recording Secretary and Managing Director, Nina Halvey.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Miss BKind postcard and ruler, circa 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Halvey taught humane education in private and parochial schools throughout the Philadelphia region as part of the AAVS\u2019 effort to combat the use of animals in scientific experimentation. The club also hosted meetings for children ages 8 to 16 at the AAVS headquarters every other Saturday and provided a correspondence membership for children across the U.S, Canada, England, Ireland, and Australia. Club members pledged \u201cI will be kind to animals now and when I grow up.\u201d Halvey promoted the club through lectures and a radio show series on WPEN called \u201cDogs I Know About.\u201d In 1931, Halvey received a humanitarian prize from the Geneva International Bureau for the Protection of Animals for her humane education work related to the Miss B\u2019Kind Club.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Would You Kill His Pet?\u201d pamphlet, circa 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To learn more about the Miss B\u2019Kind Animal Protection Club and the historical records of the AAVS, including preserved versions of the organization\u2019s website, contact the SCRC at scrc@temple.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica M. Lydon, Associate Archivist, SCRC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year in October, the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) celebrates American Archives Month through dedicated programming that raises awareness about the value of archives. This year, the SCRC participated in the Archives Month Philly sponsored event, \u201cAnimals in the Archives,\u201d at the Free Library of Philadelphia Parkway Central Library. The event featured over a … Continue reading Animals in the Archives: American Anti-Vivisection Society<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[99,58,25,16,6],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-news","tag-animals","tag-archives-month","tag-history-news","tag-philadelphia-history","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5462,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}