Mayor's Opinion on Prizefighting
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Item information
- Title:
- Mayor's Opinion on Prizefighting
- Description:
- Letters are from the office of Mayor William Russell Grace and Office of the Counsel to the Corporation for the City of New York in response to a request from Henry Bergh for information on the legalities of prizefighting. Materials originally found in ASPCA Scrap Book Volume 8 from August 1878-September 1882. Scrapbook is primarily composed of newspaper clippings from New York publications such as The New York Times, The New York World-Telegram, and The New York World. Scrapbook condition is warped.
- Topics:
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Animal Protection
- Subjects:
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Animal welfare -- Law and legislation
Boxing
Common law
Constitutional law -- United States
- Original Format:
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Typescript
- Extent:
- 4 pages
- Item identifier:
- aspca_20220301_32864
- Author:
- Ivins, William M. (William Mills), 1851-1915 more info on Ivins, William M. (William Mills), 1851-1915
- Contributor:
- Grace, William Russell, 1832-1904 more info on Grace, William Russell, 1832-1904
- Compiler:
- American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals more info on American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Letters (correspondence)
- Names:
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Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888
more info on Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888
New York (N.Y.). Office of the Mayor more info on New York (N.Y.). Office of the Mayor
- Location:
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New York (N.Y.)
- Digital Project:
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Animal Turn
Source information
- Repository:
- American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
- Collection:
- ASPCA (aspca) held by American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- This resource was created with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. CLIR's Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program, which is generously supported by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports the creation of digital representations of unique content of high scholarly significance that will be discoverable and usable as elements of a coherent national collection.