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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]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
MC301
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers
Extent:
1 box
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Stokes Library Collection of Birth Control Pamphlets, Leaflets, and Ephemera, Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1878-1930 (inclusive)
Creator:
Mudd, Stuart
Abstract:
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.

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 .

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.

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Publisher
Public Policy Papers
Finding Aid Author
Will Clements
Finding Aid Date
2020
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

The Empire and the Birth-Rate by C. V. Drysdale, D.Sc., 1914. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Paper read before the Royal Colonial Institute, March 24, 1914. Reprinted by permission from the 'Journal' of the Institute.

Physical Description

1 folder

Biographical sketch of Chas. V. Drysdale, D.Sc., M.I.E.E., 1915. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

From "The Electrician" Electrical Trades Directory and Handbook, 1915.

Physical Description

1 folder

Diagrams of International Vital Statistics by Charles V. Drysdale, D.Sc. [In English and Esperanto.], 1911. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Birth Control and the Rock Island and Scott County Medical Society of Illinois by S. Adolphus Knopf, M.D., 1925. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Reprinted from American Medicine, New Series, Vol. XX, No. 11, pages 655-658, November, 1925.

Physical Description

1 folder

Extract from Speech on Disarmament by Major General John F. O'Ryan, 1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Published by New York Woman's Publishing Company, copyright by Margaret Sanger.

Physical Description

1 folder

Medicine's Responsibilities in the Birth Control Movement by Dr. Wm. Allen Pusey, 1925. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Paper given at the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference, March 25th to 31st, 1925.

Physical Description

1 folder

Information on Methods of Birth Control at Maternity and Child Welfare Centres… by Lord Buckmaster, 1926. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Reprint of Speeches made…in the House of Lords on April 28th, 1926….

Physical Description

1 folder

The Philosophy of Eugenics and it's [sic] Practical Side by Dr. W. F. Chenoweth, 1926. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Reprint Nogales International, January 10, 1926.

Physical Description

1 folder

Two articles by Thor Andersson: Coming Statistics - A Letter to the Mother of the World Population Union.The World Population Union., 1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

In English and Swedish, reprinted from Nordisk Statistisk Tidskrift, Band 6, Häft. 2-3, 1927.

Physical Description

1 folder

American Birth Control League – conference program Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference, March 25 to 31, 1925, New York City., 1925. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

American Birth Control League – pamphlets, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[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.

Physical Description

1 folder

American Birth Control League – pamphlets, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[3 pieces] What We Stand For – Principles and Aims. One Hundred Years of Birth Control…. Announcement of the First American Birth Control Conference.

Physical Description

1 folder

American Birth Control League – pamphlets and leaflets, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[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.

Physical Description

1 folder

American Birth Control League, Clinical Research Department, circa 1926. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[2 pieces] Report of the Clinical Research Department…for the Year of 1925 by Hannah M. Stone, M.D. Advertising card.

Physical Description

1 folder

Malthusian League – leaflets, circa 1900. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[3 pieces] Malthusian Leaflet No. 10. The Semi-Starvation of the Human Race. Christianity and Parental Prudence by J. K. P.

Physical Description

1 folder

Malthusian League – leaflets, circa 1900. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[3 pieces] A Programme of Women's Emancipation by Dr. Alice Drysdale-Vickery "A New Commandment." Labour Unrest – To the Workers and the Public.

Physical Description

1 folder

Malthusian League – leaflets, circa 1900-1910. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[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]

Physical Description

1 folder

Malthusian League – leaflets, 1879. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[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.

Physical Description

1 folder

Malthusian League – flyers and leaflets, circa 1900-1910. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[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!

Physical Description

1 folder

Malthusian League – annual reports, circa 1918-1926. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[5 pieces] 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, and 48th annual reports.

Physical Description

1 folder

New Generation League – fundraising brochures, circa 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[2 pieces] Incorporating the Neo-Malthusian Group, formerly "The Malthusian League."

Physical Description

1 folder

Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress, circa 1923. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[2 pieces] Pamphlet, leaflet.

Physical Description

1 folder

Society for the Provision of Birth Control Clinics (Birmingham Branch), 1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[2 pieces] Fundraising letter, brochure.

Physical Description

1 folder

Workers' Birth Control Group – leaflets, circa 1926-1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[3 pieces] Sign the Membership Form Overleaf….To Our Trade Union Comrades. Did Your Member of Parliament Vote Against Birth Control…?

Physical Description

1 folder

St. Pancras Birth Control League, circa 1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[3 pieces] Pamphlet, How It Works. Advertising cards.

Physical Description

1 folder

Mothers' Clinic, Manchester, Salford, and District, circa 1926-1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[5 pieces] Patient intake form, pessary use instructional card, handwritten form letter, fundraising letter, flyer.

Physical Description

1 folder

Clinic advertising cards, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[2 pieces] Mothers' Welfare Clinic, Mirfield, Yorkshire. Nurse Adams, Smethwick, Staffordshire.

Physical Description

1 folder

Glasgow Women's Welfare and Advisory Clinic – flyers, circa 1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[2 pieces]

Physical Description

1 folder

Aberdeen Women's Welfare Centre, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[4 pieces] Patient intake form, flyer, advertising card, form letter.

Physical Description

1 folder

Walworth Women's Welfare Center, 1920s. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[6 pieces] Pamphlet, form letter, flyers, advertising cards.

Physical Description

1 folder

Women's Welfare Centre, Wolverhampton – flyer, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

East London Women's Welfare Centre – flyers, 1926. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[2 pieces]

Physical Description

1 folder

Cambridge Women's Welfare Association, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[7 pieces] Patient intake form, pamphlet, flyers, pessary use instructional card, advertising card.

Physical Description

1 folder

Oxford Family Welfare Association and Birth Control Clinic, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[4 pieces] Patient intake form, fundraising leaflet, pessary use instructional card, advertising card.

Physical Description

1 folder

North Kensington Women's Welfare Centre, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[3 pieces] Patient intake form, flyers.

Physical Description

1 folder

Birmingham Women's Welfare Centre, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[3 pieces] Patient intake form, flyers.

Physical Description

1 folder

Wives' Clinic for Birth Control – brochure Good Reasons Why Wives and Mothers Should Visit the Clinic., circa 1925. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Mothers' Welfare Clinic Liverpool, circa 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[5 pieces] Patient intake form, form letter, pessary use instructional card, advertising cards.

Physical Description

1 folder

Birth Control Clinic, Brighton – flyer, circa 1925. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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