City Animals: A History of Our Changing Relationship with Other Hoboken Residents.
Entry/Object ID
2005.001.0007
Description
City Animals: A History of Our Changing Relationship with Other Hoboken Residents. By Holly Metz. A Hoboken Historical Museum Publication, 2004. Companion volume to an exhibition with same title at the Museum, 1301 Hudson St., Hoboken. Oblong softcover, 9" high x 12" wide, 64 pages plus covers; illustrated; notes and selected bibliography; not indexed. Copy 3 (Copy 1 is imaged. PDF available.)
Images of the exhibition are photo catalog 2004.005.0042.01 (disks are archive catalog 2004.005.0042).
Metz was the guest curator for the exhibition and author of the volume. Designed by McKevin Shaughnessy.
Contents:
Introduction 4
Neighbors 12
Bird-Watching, from Guns to Glass
Introduction 19
Veterinary Science: For Man and Beast
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
From Carriage-Makers to Car Mechanics:
The Kostelecky Family of Bloomfield Street
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Fire and Police Department Horses and Dogs
Food and Clothing 31
Animals as Adornment
Spectacle and Sport 36
Barnum Comes to Hoboken
Hexamer's Riding Academy and the German Riding Club
Animal Fighting
Pigeon Flying
Pests and Strays 46
Human Inquilines
Almost Inquilines
"Filthy Mongrels and Dirty Felines"
The Pound Keeper
Caring for Strays
Companions and Family 55
Animal Companions in the Great War
Notes 60
Selected Bibliography 63
Oblong 8vo softcover