John Ptak Collection of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Printed Education Materials 1882-1937

John Ptak was the proprietor of J. F. Ptak Books, Maps, and Prints in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The store specialized in used, rare, and antiquarian manuscripts, reprints, journals, maps, and prints in mathematics and the sciences. He relocated to Hendersonville, North Carolina, and operates the blog, JF Ptak Science Books.

The items in this collection were assembled by John Ptak and relate to animal protection issues in the United States.

This collection is arranged alphabetically.

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[Identification of item], John Ptak Collection of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Printed Education Materials, MC 00620, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Gift of John Ptak, 2017 (Accession no. 2017.0039)

Processed by: Bennett Chapman and Gwynn Thayer, March 2017; machine-readable finding aid created by: Bennett Chapman and Gwynn Thayer, March 2017.