Examples of multi-faceted UK & US collaboration. From a time when animal abuse was just starting to receive mass-media coverage. Cruelty to Animals – “Which Are the Brutes?” by Alfred Rudolph Waud An illustration exposing cruelty to animals, published in – Harper’s Weekly, A Journal of Civilization, February 23, 1867. An item in our Ernest Bell Library – Striking artwork – produced almost 150 years ago. It would have been seen by…
An article by Ernest Bell, writing in Sept. 1914. First some notes – In this article, Ernest Bell is reflecting on his 40 years of being a vegetarian. He started to be an animal rights activist in ~ 1873. He had stopped eating meat in about 1874. He ‘veganized’ books which he published. His consumption of animal products such as milk seems to have been ‘O’. ~ …a little over twenty-five years… ~ – Ernest…
Note – we use ‘vegan’ and ‘vegans’ in inverted commas here, because we are discussing a period long before the word vegan came into existence. Even the word vegetarian was not yet in use. Pythagorean & Vegetable Eater / Eating – these were the commonly used terms. …… Our history is rich indeed. Circa 200 years ago in the UK – There had recently been a ‘vegan’ (or close to vegan) Sheriff…
Ernest Bell – from an editorial in the Animals’ Friend Annual Volume for 1907 “With regard to the Humane Diet there is also a great change of opinion and feeling going on. The “vegetarian” used, out of deference to public opinion, to have to speak a little humbly about his special “fad,” but now we find it is the carnivorous man who adopts the apologetic tone. If he poses at all as…
Pure Henry Brown Amos & Ernest Bell – a very rare survivor – the only example we have seen in the past 40+ years of collecting these old AR related items. Ernest Bell Library item – League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports Badge – circa 1924 Brass & Blue Vitreous Enamel 25 mm wide by 20.5 mm high The 4 animals are – a Stag – a Hare –…
A grim ‘pro-fur’ item in our Ernest Bell Library. A circa 1870/1880 advertising card. Corde Viridis – thank you so much for the translation – Paul Körner Fur trader Specialty: various skin carpets with or without naturalised heads. Humans are selling the skins of animals, and we are pretty certain that the animals didn’t all die of old age. Lion, Tiger, Panther, Jaguar……. Current Prices – for skins with naturalised heads Lions skins…
Infant Industries – E. G. Lutz From – Life Magazine May 14, 1908. An item in our – Ernest Bell Library – please support us / help us to build & preserve our collection. Edwin George (E. G.) Lutz 1868-1946 Not much is known about E. G. Lutz’s life. Was he a plant eater? He certainly helped spread vegetarianism 100+ years ago. See another of his cartoons from 1911 at…
The Ernest Bell Library’s 1964 copy of Animal Machines. What convinced you to change to vegan? A review of this book, Animal Machines by Ruth Harrison, pictured above, convinced the remarkable vegan pioneer Kathleen Jannaway. Quotes from a 2003 article by Harry Mather and Malcolm Horne, remembering Kathleen Jannaway – http://www.veganviews.org.uk/vv96/vv96jannaway.html In 1964, Kathleen read a review of the book ‘Animal Machines’ by Ruth Harrison which revealed the cruel farming conditions of battery…
An old postcard in our Ernest Bell Library. Subject: Vegetarian Hotel, Woodridge, N. Y. Publisher: A. S. Landis, Wurstboro, N. Y. Type: Linen Size: 3.5″ x 5.5″ (9 x 14 cm) Date: Undated – circa 1920 Every item in our collection has the power to tell / reveal ‘stories’! With this old postcard, it is ‘stories’ of people actively promoting vegetarianism in and around New York, from almost 100 years ago,…
Some early examples of vegetarians cooperating – sharing ideas – sharing artwork – helping humans – helping animals. Artwork, metal badges & paper badges (perhaps they were intended to be pinned to garments, or inserted into holders), some of which are in our Ernest Bell Library, some of which are in other collections. The embedded links will allow you to ‘dig deeper’. We do not know the identity of the artists…
A wonderfully designed postcard from the National Canine Defence League (NCDL) – circa 1930. A much loved item in the Ernest Bell Library. So Shines A Good Dog In A Naughty World ……quoting Shakespeare – ……’maybe’ quoting the Bible. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene I – circa 1598 Portia: That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws…
For the benefit of 2016 vegans – here – are HappyCow’s Maine listings In our Ernest Bell Library, we have an original handwritten letter from 1834, identifying one early ‘close to vegan’ Portland resident – Reverend Henry Aiken Worcester, a Swedenborgian minister – and one ‘vegan’ visitor – Dr. Sylvester Graham. The letter tells us that Portland was quite a ‘vegan paradise’ in the 1830s. I use ‘vegan’ with inverted…
Time travel – back 68 years to Vegetarian Central London 1947. These 5 restaurant businesses had all survived WW2. Kudos to all of the owners & their teams! Sharing a few items from our Ernest Bell Library archives. The ‘London Vegetarian Society’ in 1947 – minus most of its archives as its previous home had been destroyed in the ‘Blitz’ 6 years earlier in 1941. 5 places to eat –…