Anti-Vaccination Society of America

Scope and Contents This unbound scrapbook contains clippings, leaflets, typescript letters and reports, reprints, and other printed ephemera related to vaccination and the anti-vaccination movement. Material comes from a variety of anti-vaccination societies and leagues from across the country and internationally, including in Brooklyn, Chicago, London, Terre Haute, and Toronto. The National Anti-Vaccination League in London and the Anti-Vaccination Society of America are particularly well represented. Also...

Scope and Contents The Records of the Anti-Vaccination Society of America consist of one bound volume containing the Society’s certificate of incorporation (1885), their constitution and bylaws, and meeting minutes beginning in 1889. Also included is one folder of correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the Society’s work. This includes an “Act To provide for a commission to investigate the nature and value of vaccination, anti-toxine, seropathy and other alleged prophylactics, and to appropriate...

Scope and Contents This scrapbook contains clippings of articles, reports, letters to the editor, etc. related to and expressing opposition to vaccination, especially compulsory vaccination. Many reports are from Muncie, Terre Haute, and other parts of Indiana, but coverage also includes Brooklyn, Chicago, Milwaukee, and parts of England. The clippings focus on the arguments against vaccination, including letters to the editor and responses to letters signed by “Anti-Vaccination” or “Anti;” court...