Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History

Dominik Ohrem is Research Associate at MESH – Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities and Postdoctoral Researcher at HESCOR (Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human and Earth System Coupled Research) at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research is focused on the history and philosophy of human-animal and multispecies relations.

• Volume 4: Domesticated and Companion Animals (Part 2)General IntroductionVolume 4 IntroductionPart 1. Pet Culture1. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, “The Sentiment of Petship”, Godey’s Lady’s Book 28, no. 5 (May 1844): pp. 216–18.2. Arthur M. Edwards, [The Freshwater Aquarium and Its Inhabitants], from Life Beneath the Waters, or, the Aquarium in America (New York: H. Baillière, 1858), pp. 39-45, 63-4, 71-3, 85-90.3. Theodore H. Hittell, [Educating Bears], from Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California (San Francisco: Towne and Bacon, 1860), pp. 27-34, 36, 66-72, 112-15.4. Robert Ridgway, “A True Story of a Pet Bird”, The American Naturalist 3, no. 6 (August 1869): 309–12.5. Josephine Clifford, “Something About My Pets”, The Overland Monthly 6, no. 1 (January 1871): 58–67.6. Junius Henri Browne, “Cynolatry”, Appletons’ Journal 15, no. 372 (May 6, 1876): 597–98.7. Cold-Blooded Companions: Articles on Amphibian and Reptilian Pets (1885-1909)7.1 H. G. C., “Bullfrogs as Household Pets”, The New York Times [New York City, NY], July 5, 1885, p.10.7.2 [Anon.], “Horned Toads as Pets”, The Morning Call [San Francisco, CA], May 4, 1890, p. 9.7.3 [Anon.], “Mr. Jewell’s Frogs”, The Hartford Courant [Hartford, CT], September 1, 1892, p. 3.7.4 [Anon.], “Snakes Are His Pets. Washington Man Tells How He Handles Reptiles”, The Washington Post [Washington, D.C.], September 8, 1902, p. 11.7.5 Elizabeth Elliot, “The Pet Alligator.” The Rock Island Argus [Rock Island, IL], May 1, 1909, p. 88. Henry Bishop, “Advice to his Patrons and Bird Fanciers Generally, on the Care of Canaries, Finches, Cardinals, Parrots and Soft Bill Birds”, from Bishop, the Bird Man’s Book, on the Care and Management of Birds, Aquariums, Your Home and Yourself (Baltimore: Bishop, the Bird Man, 1886), pp. 5-18, 22-4.9. Harriet M. Miller, Articles on Cage Birds from Harper’s Bazaar (1892)9.1 Harriet Mann Miller [as “Olive Thorne Miller”], “Bird-Lore. I.–Is It Cruel to Keep Birds?”, Harper’s Bazaar 25, no. 9 (February 27, 1892): p. 170.9.2 ––––, “Bird-Lore. III.–To Get a Bird Home”, Harper’s Bazaar 25, no. 11 (March 12, 1892): p. 206.9.3 ––––, “Bird-Lore. IV.–To Tame a Bird”, Harper’s Bazaar 25, no. 12 (March 19, 1892): p. 226-27.10. J. D. Jerrold Kelley, “Queer Pets of Sailor Jack”, from Harper’s Round Table (1896)10. 1 James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, “Queer Pets of Sailor Jack”, Harper’s Round Table 17, no. 871 (July 7, 1896): 872-873.10. 2 ––––, “Queer Pets of Sailor Jack”, Harper’s Round Table 17, no. 872 (July 14, 1896): 896-898.11. Children and Pets: Commentary on a Human-Animal Relationship (1901-1919)11. 1 [Anon.], “Children and Their Pets”, Prescott Morning Courier [Prescott, AZ], July 27, 1901, p. 2.11.2 Kate Upson Clark, “Helping to Refine the Boy”, Los Angeles Times [Los Angeles, CA], August 24, 1903, p. 13.11.3 [Anon.], “Pets That Teach Children”, The Washington Post, October 10, 1909, M7.11.4 Rene Stillman, “Develop Child Character Through Pets”, Philadelphia Inquirer [Philadelphia, PA], July 11, 1919, p. 11.12. George E. McColm, “The Wolf as Pet”, Outdoor Life 14, no. 2 (August 1904): 486–88.13. Pet Boarding Homes and Hospitals: Articles in the New York Times (1904-1905)13. 1 [Anon.], “A Summer Hotel for Pet Birds”, The New York Times, June 12, 1904, p. 6.13. 2 M. A. T., “At a Sanitarium of the Canine and Feline ‘Smart Set’”, The New York Times, July 2, 1905, SM6.14. Sarah Comstock, “The Training of Domestic Animals”, Good Housekeeping 41, no. 1 (July 1905): pp. 42–46.15. [Anon.], “Fishes’ Faces”, The Atlantic Monthly 102, no. 1 (July 1908): pp. 142–43.16. Henry C. Merwin, “Dogs and Men”, The Atlantic Monthly 105, no. 393 (January 1910): pp. 10–18.17. Charlotte P. Gilman, “On Dogs,” The Forerunner (1911)17. 1 Charlotte P. Gilman, “On Dogs”, The Forerunner 2, no. 7 (July 1911): pp. 180–82.17. 2 ––––, “On Dogs”, The Forerunner 2, no. 8 (August 1911): pp. 206–9.18. Agnes Repplier, “The Grocer’s Cat”, from Americans and Others (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912), pp. 273-81, 284-98.19. Edward Howe Forbush, “What Are We Going to Do About the Cat? With Over 31 Million Birds Killed by Cats Each Year Something Must Be Done—But What?”, The Ladies’ Home Journal 34, no. 3 (March 1917): p. 12.Part 2. Urbanization and City Life20. Robert Milham Hartley, [Exposing the “Swill Milk” Scandal], from An Historical, Scientific, and Practical Essay on Milk, as an Article of Human Sustenance; with a Consideration of the Effects Consequent Upon the Present Unnatural Methods of Producing It for the Supply of Large Cities (New York: J. Leavitt, 1842), pp. 107-13, 132-37, 140-4321. [Anon.], “Beef Packing in Chicago by Wadsworth, Dyer & Co”, Prairie Farmer 8, no. 11 (November 1848): pp. 336–37.22. The Manhattan “Piggery War”: Articles from The New York Herald (1859)22.1 [Anon.], “Private Piggeries and Public Health”, The New York Herald [New York City, NY], August 6, 1859, p. 4.22. 2 [Anon.], “The War on the Pigs, Piggeries and Bone Boiling Establishments” The New York Herald, August 9, 1859, p. 4.22.3 [Anon.], “The War in the Piggeries. The City Inspector Asks for Aid. Nine Thousand Hogs Driven Out. Horrible Description of the Up Town Wards”, The New York Herald, September 20, 1859, p. 4.23. Charles Dawson Shanly, “New York Dogs”, The Atlantic Monthly 29, no. 175 (May 1872): pp. 550–59.24. Caroline E. White, “The City Pound or Dog Shelter of Philadelphia”, Our Dumb Animals 13, no. 10 (March 1881): pp. 74–75.25. Mad Dogs and Urban Panic: The New York Times on “Hydrophobia” (1885-1893)25.1 [Anon.], “A Mad Fight with a Mad Dog”, The New York Times, April 17, 1885, p. 1.25.2 [Anon.], “The Mad Dog Scare”, The New York Times, December 24, 1885, p. 4.25.3 Dinah Sharpe, “When Dogs Become Mad. Lack of Sufficient Pure Water Often the Cause”, The New York Times, July 5, 1891, p. 17.25.4 [Anon.], “Bitten by a Mad Cat. The Victims to Come to the Pasteur Institute in This City”, The New York Times, December 16, 1891, p. 10.25.5 [Anon.], “A Small Dog’s Sad End. They Said He Was Mad and Put Him to Death Cruelly”, The New York Times, February 8, 1893, p. 8.25. 6 “Medicus”, “How to Treat Mad Dogs”, The New York Times, June 19, 1893, p. 11.26. H. C. Clark, “Meat Industries of the United States”, from Fourth and Fifth Annual Reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the Years 1887 and 1888, 359–78 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1889), pp. 359-68.27. Rufus M. Steele, “Killing an Army of Horses to Rebuild San Francisco”, Harper’s Weekly 51 (April 20, 1907): pp. 580–81.28. Alfred M. Downes, Fire Fighters and Their Pets (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907), pp. 2-6, 11-14, 95-106, 120-28, 143-44, 147-55.29. Paul P. Foster, “Helping the Work Horses”, Outing 53, no. 2 (November 1908): pp. 168–79.30. [Anon.], “New York’s Police Dogs and What They Can Do”, The New York Times, January 19, 1908, SM7.31. Edwin Emerson, “Making Policemen of Horses”, Harper’s Weekly 53 (January 30, 1909): pp. 27–8.32. Edwin T. Brewster, “A City of 4,000,000 Cats”, McClure’s Magazine 39 (May 1912): pp. 54–64.33. William F. Morse, “The Humane and Sanitary Disposal of Superfluous Animal Life”, American Journal of Public Health 3, no. 11 (1913): 1226–34.34. Alice J. Cleator, “The Cats of Uncle Sam”, Our Dumb Animals 51, no. 10 (March 1919): pp. 156–57.Index