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Stokes Library Collection of Birth Control Pamphlets, Leaflets, and Ephemera
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]
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Includes pamphlets, leaflets, brochures, and annual reports published in the United States and Great Britain, and printed ephemera including advertising cards, forms and letters issued by birth control clinics in the United States and Great Britain.
No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.
This collection was transferred from the Princeton University Stokes Library to the Public Policy Papers in January 2020 .
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This collection was processed by Julia Brav in January 2020 . Finding aid written by Will Clements in January 2020 .
No materials were separated from this collection.
People
- Allbutt, Henry Arthur
- Andersson, Thor
- Buckmaster, Stanley Owen Buckmaster, Viscount (1861-1934)
- Chenoweth, William F.
- Drysdale, Bessie Ingman (1871-1950)
- Drysdale, C. V. (Charles Vickery) (1874-1961)
- Hamilton, Alice
- Ingersoll, Robert Green (1833-1899)
- Knopf, S. Adolphus (Sigard Adolphus) (1857-1940)
- McGregor, Margaret
- Mudd, Stuart
- O'Ryan, John F. (John Francis) (1874-1961)
- Pusey, William Allen (1865-1940)
- Sanger, Margaret (1879-1966)
- Stone, Hannah M. (Hannah Mayer).
- Vickery, Alice Drysdale (1844-1929)
Organization
- Cambridge Women's Welfare Association.
- American Birth Control Conference (1921 : New York, N.Y.).
- American Birth Control League
- Wives' Clinic for Birth Control
- Workers' Birth Control Group
- Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress (Great Britain)
- St. Pancras Birth Control League
- Malthusian league
Subject
- Publisher
- Public Policy Papers
- Finding Aid Author
- Will Clements
- Finding Aid Date
- 2020
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Collection Inventory
Paper read before the Royal Colonial Institute, March 24, 1914. Reprinted by permission from the 'Journal' of the Institute.
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From "The Electrician" Electrical Trades Directory and Handbook, 1915.
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Reprinted from American Medicine, New Series, Vol. XX, No. 11, pages 655-658, November, 1925.
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Published by New York Woman's Publishing Company, copyright by Margaret Sanger.
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Paper given at the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference, March 25th to 31st, 1925.
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Reprint of Speeches made…in the House of Lords on April 28th, 1926….
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Reprint Nogales International, January 10, 1926.
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In English and Swedish, reprinted from Nordisk Statistisk Tidskrift, Band 6, Häft. 2-3, 1927.
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[3 pieces] An Amendment to the Federal Law Dealing with Contraception. Selected List of Books on Birth Control, Sex Education and Social Hygiene. Promotion of booklet, The Medical, Social, Economic, Moral and Religious Aspects of Birth Control, by S. Adolphus Knopf, M.D.
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[3 pieces] What We Stand For – Principles and Aims. One Hundred Years of Birth Control…. Announcement of the First American Birth Control Conference.
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[5 pieces] Poverty and Birth Control by Alice Hamilton, M.D. Citizenship and Birth Control by Stuart Mudd, M.D. Is Birth Control Unnatural? War and Birth Control. Join the American Birth Control League.
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[2 pieces] Report of the Clinical Research Department…for the Year of 1925 by Hannah M. Stone, M.D. Advertising card.
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[3 pieces] Malthusian Leaflet No. 10. The Semi-Starvation of the Human Race. Christianity and Parental Prudence by J. K. P.
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[3 pieces] A Programme of Women's Emancipation by Dr. Alice Drysdale-Vickery "A New Commandment." Labour Unrest – To the Workers and the Public.
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[3 pieces] The White Slaves of 'Morality' by Margaret McGregor, M.A. Parental Prudence – The Only Road to Social Reform by Col. R. G. Ingersoll "Must the Dole go on for ever?" by C. V. Drysdale[1900s, 1910]
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[4 pieces] Evils Produced by Over-Childbearing and Excessive Lactation by Henry Arthur Allbutt Splendid Extracts from the Press. Two More Pronouncements by B. Dunlop The Malthusian League – What It Is and What It Does.
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[5 pieces] "Wanted – Beautiful Babies" by Bessie Drysdale Burden of Too Many Children by Bessie Ingman Drysdale To Working Men and Women! Get Rid of Poverty… by (Mrs.) Bessie Drysdale [2 copies] Fathers and Mothers!
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[5 pieces] 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, and 48th annual reports.
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[2 pieces] Incorporating the Neo-Malthusian Group, formerly "The Malthusian League."
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[2 pieces] Pamphlet, leaflet.
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[2 pieces] Fundraising letter, brochure.
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[3 pieces] Sign the Membership Form Overleaf….To Our Trade Union Comrades. Did Your Member of Parliament Vote Against Birth Control…?
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[3 pieces] Pamphlet, How It Works. Advertising cards.
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[5 pieces] Patient intake form, pessary use instructional card, handwritten form letter, fundraising letter, flyer.
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[2 pieces] Mothers' Welfare Clinic, Mirfield, Yorkshire. Nurse Adams, Smethwick, Staffordshire.
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[4 pieces] Patient intake form, flyer, advertising card, form letter.
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[6 pieces] Pamphlet, form letter, flyers, advertising cards.
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[7 pieces] Patient intake form, pamphlet, flyers, pessary use instructional card, advertising card.
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[4 pieces] Patient intake form, fundraising leaflet, pessary use instructional card, advertising card.
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[3 pieces] Patient intake form, flyers.
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[3 pieces] Patient intake form, flyers.
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[5 pieces] Patient intake form, form letter, pessary use instructional card, advertising cards.
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