Genetics

Abstract

The Irish Setter Club of America collection chronicles one of the AKC's oldest clubs, consisting of meeting minutes and other administrative documents dating as far back as 1918, a photograph collection of prominent champions, applications for the Irish Setter Genetic Registry, and audiovisual footage of 21st-century national specialties.

Abstract The Mastiff Club of America (MCOA) collection contains breed research, clippings, and photograph files dating back to 1890; club administration files holding a wide variety of club records dating between 1938 and 2008; catalogs, premium lists, and photographs for events beginning with the club's first independent specialty in 1983; a broad swath of Mastiff-related publications released by the club, its affiliates, and other regional and international associations devoted to the breed...

Scope and Contents Note Winkie (W.E.) Mackay-Smith's papers, date mostly from the 1980's, although there is some material from as early as 1967 and from as late as 1997. The collection provides a more in-depth look at some of the Bull Terrier Club of America's concerns and politics during the 1980's, a particularly active and turbulent time for the Club. The membership was divided and there were many conflicts. Elections were hotly contested. The editor of Barks was fired, in a...