California Society for the Promotion of Medical Research Records,
Scope and Content
Minutes, financial records, correspondence, memoranda, notes, lists, clippings, reprints, pamphlets, draft articles, periodicals. This collection focuses on the Society's efforts against the 1938 initiative, and offers a look into the organization and workings of a successful political campaign. There are also materials referencing earlier and later campaigns around the same issue.
Dates
- Creation: 1937-1948 (bulk 1938)
Language of Materials
English.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Corporate History
This organization, founded in 1915 but minimally active since the 1922 defeat of a California antivivisection initiative, was reorganized in 1937 to work against the proposed State Humane Pound Law (initiative number 2 on the November 8, 1938 ballot). The Society apparently also opposed another such initiative in 1948. The Society's purpose was expressed in Article II of its By-Laws: "The purpose of the Society is to disseminate accurate information as to the methods and benefits of animal experimentation and to stimulate and guard scientific research." The 1937 reorganization created a Northern California committee with offices on Pine Street in San Francisco and a Southern California committee with offices in the Chamber of Commerce building in Los Angeles.
Extent
2.9 Linear Feet (2 cartons, 1 box)
Physical Location
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
General
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
General
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Encoded by:
- James Ryan
- Title
- Register of the California Society for the Promotion of Medical Research Records, 1937-1948 (bulk 1938)
- Status
- Unverified Full Draft
- Author
- Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by James Ryan
- Date
- © 1997
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the UCSF Archives and Special Collections Repository
UCSF Kalmanovitz Library
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco CA 94143-0840 USA
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/ask-an-archivist/