Margaret Sanger Papers, 1761-1995
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Margaret Sanger Papers
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Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
Biographical History for: Margaret Sanger Papers
Biographical Note Margaret Sanger, 1916 Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York, on September 15, 1879, the sixth of eleven children and the third of four daughters born to Anne Purcell Higgins and Michael Hennessey Higgins, a stone mason. Her two elder sisters worked to supplement the family income, and financed her education at Claverack College, a private coeducational preparatory school in the Catskills. After leaving Claverack, Higgins took a job teaching first grade to immigrant children, but decided after a short time that the work did not suit her temperament. She returned to Corning where her mother, then only forty-nine years old, was dying of tuberculosis. Margaret Higgins blamed her mother's untimely death, as well as her sisters' need to sacrifice their own ambitions to support the family, on her parents' high fertility. Though she loved and admired her father, she resented his demand that she take her mother's place managing the household. Shortly after her Anne Higgins's death, Margaret Higgins left Corning for White Plains, New York, where she entered nursing school. In 1902, after completing two years of practical nursing training and gaining acceptance to a three-year degree program, Higgins met and married William Sanger, an architect and aspiring artist. By 1910 Margaret Sanger had survived her own bout with tuberculosis and given birth to three children (Stuart, 1903; Grant, 1908; and Peggy, 1910), but was chafing inside her role as a traditional housewife and mother in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Later that year the family moved to Manhattan where, through her work as a home nurse on the Lower East Side and her political involvements with the International Workers of the World and anarchist Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger was drawn into the burgeoning struggle for women's right to control their sexuality and fertility. By 1912 Sanger was widely recognized as a writer and speaker about sex reform. Later that year she became a regular contributor to the socialist newspaper The Call, where she published a series of articles on sexual hygiene. One of these, an article about syphilis published in February 1913, was targeted by the U.S. Post Office under the Comstock Act of 1873, which banned the distribution of sexually-related material through the U.S. mail. This repression of her writings, combined with her exposure to the damages done to women by repeated childbirths and self-induced abortions, led to Sanger's decision to devote herself entirely to the birth control movement. By 1914 she had separated from her husband, written a pamphlet entitled Family Limitation which coined the term "birth control," traveled to Europe to research new contraceptive methods, and set out to establish a system of advice centers where women throughout the U.S. could obtain reliable birth control information. Sanger's use of radical tactics to educate women about birth control, especially her publication of the radical journal The Woman Rebel, brought her once again to the attention of the U.S. Postal Service. When the U.S. government brought charges against her, Sanger fled to Europe where she befriended the sex reformer Havelock Ellis, who encouraged her to avoid radical political rhetoric and reframe her writings in the language of the social sciences. The pneumonia death of five-year-old Peggy Sanger, which occurred shortly after her mother's return to the New York in October 1915, devastated Margaret Sanger. But Peggy's death, in tandem with William Sanger's arrest for distributing a copy of Family Limitation, aroused considerable public sympathy for Sanger, which, in turn, led the U.S. government to drop its earlier charges against her. More convinced than ever of the need to legalize birth control, Sanger and her younger sister Ethel Byrne opened the Brownsville Clinic in Brooklyn in October 1916 and, for ten days before the police closed it down, the two dispensed contraceptive advice to 488 women. Tried and imprisoned for her work, Margaret Sanger became a national figure. On appeal, Sanger won a clarification of the New York law forbidding the dissemination of contraceptive information. The Judge, Frederick Crane, rejected Sanger's argument that, because it forced women to risk death in pregnancy, the law was unconstitutional. Nevertheless, Crane did establish doctors' right to provide women with contraceptive advice for "the cure and prevention of disease." Interpreting Crane's decision broadly as a mandate for birth control clinics staffed by doctors, Sanger completed the strategic and tactical transformation she had begun at Havelock Ellis's suggestion. Sanger minimized her radical past and began to stress eugenic arguments for birth control over feminist ones. In doing so, she gained increasing support from both medical professionals and philanthropists; in 1921 such backing allowed her to organize the American Birth Control League, which would become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942. In 1923, aided by her second husband, millionaire J. Noah Slee, Sanger opened the first doctor-staffed contraceptive clinic in the U.S., the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in New York City, under the direction of Dr. Hannah Stone. In addition to dispensing birth control information and devices, the Bureau trained hundreds of physicians in contraceptive techniques and served as a model for the national network of 300 clinics Sanger and her supporters would establish over the next fifteen years. In 1925 Sanger convinced her old friend Herbert Simonds to found the Holland Rantos Company, which became the first American company to produce the diaphragm. Between 1929 and 1936 Sanger and her lobbying group, the Committee on Federation legislation for Birth Control, waged a series of court battles which culminated in United States v. One Package, which overturned the old statutes by permitting the mailing of contraceptive devices intended for physicians. Sanger's victory in this case led the American Medical Association to endorse contraception as a legitimate medical service and a vital component of medical education in 1937. After the U.S. v. One Package Victory Sanger retired to Tucson, Arizona determined to play less central role in the birth control movement, yet her influence continued. In 1952 Sanger helped found the International Planned Parenthood Federation and served as the organization's first president. Also in the 1950s she won philanthropist Katharine Dexter McCormick's financial support for Gregory Pincus's work on the development of the birth control pill. Margaret Sanger died of congestive heart failure in Tucson on September 6, 1966.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Margaret Sanger Papers are divided into two distinct portions: those papers that were microfilmed by the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, consisting of 39.5 linear feet (95 boxes; 83 reels); and the unfilmed portion of the papers consisting of 73.5 linear feet (131 boxes). The unfilmed records and papers were, with few exceptions, not created or authored by Sanger. Material authored by Sanger (including her complete writings), and core organizational records as well as many legal and miscellaneous materials were extracted and included in Microfilm Edition. The unfilmed portion of the Margaret Sanger Papers has been arranged and described to be used in tandem with the microfilm edition. Many of the records are overlapping and interrelated, and some duplication exists between the collections. The published microfilm edition of the Smith College Collections consists of nearly 45,000 documents drawn from the Margaret Sanger Papers and nineteen other collections of manuscript material and archival records located in the Sophia Smith Collection and Smith College Archives at Smith College. Included are all of Sanger's correspondence and writings, along with a large selection of organizational, conference, and legal materials documenting her leadership of the American and international birth control movements, and other records of activities and events related to Sanger's personal life, awards, tributes, travels, art work, and family. Records were included in the microfilm edition only if created by Sanger, prepared under her supervision, or if they pertained directly to Sanger and her activities. The microfilm edition also includes Sanger documents from twenty other archival and manuscript collections, primarily in the Sophia Smith Collection, but also including several from the Smith College Archives. The published guide is entitled The Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition: Smith College Collection Series (1996). In addition, University Publications has published the Collected Documents, a series of Sanger's papers collected by the Margaret Sanger Papers Project from repositories around the world (guide and microfilm are available in the SSC reading room). The Sanger collection at the Library of Congress, the largest collection of her papers, was microfilmed in 1977. There is no further description or container listing for the microfilmed portion included here. For more information about the Sanger Papers on microfilm, and to view the online guide to the microfilm, as well as selected documents online, go to the Margaret Sanger Papers Project Web site. The unfilmed portion of the Sanger Papers and consists of 73.25 linear feet of materials in the original Sanger papers at Smith College that were excluded from the 1995 microfilm edition. It includes a wide range of records that are essential to understanding the roots of the American birth control movement and the work of Margaret Sanger, and that highlight many of the other individuals who led in the pioneering effort to legalize and disseminate contraception in America and abroad. It contains materials documenting the American and international birth control movements from the 1910s to circa 1966 and to a lesser extent, the life of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966). Included are correspondence and biographical material of Sanger friends and family, and individuals participating in the birth control movement; limited organization and conference records; informational files on countries and states; subject files covering issues and topics related to birth control, population and sexuality; biographical materials, including some of Sanger's financial records, address books, some family material, and obituaries; research on Sanger, including book manuscripts, biographical work, and theses; printed material, including both foreign and domestic periodicals related to birth control, sexuality and population, and clippings spanning Sanger's lifetime; audio and video recordings; and photographs. The unfilmed portion documents the American and international birth control movements, particularly between the years 1920 and 1962, but includes records spanning the mid- 19th century to 1970 related to the history of contraception, malthusianism, eugenics, sex education, and other topics related to birth control and population planning. In particular, the correspondence and biographical material serve as an essential supplement to the microfilmed portion, as well as providing substantive information on many of Sanger's closest friends and principal supporters. The collection includes significant documentation of many international organizations and clinics particularly in Europe and Asia, and records of many regional organizations and clinics in the U. S. This collection also provides material on the 19th century English and American roots of the Sanger-led birth control movement. In addition, the Unfilmed Collection offers extensive information on Sanger's family, in particular her second husband, J. Noah Slee, and her sons Grant and Stuart Sanger.
Birth control clinics--History--Sources
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Birth control--Developing countries--History--Sources
Birth control--History--20th century--Sources
Eugenics--United States--History--Sources
Human reproduction--Political aspects--History--Sources
Hygiene, Sexual--History--20th century--Sources
Marriage--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Population policy--History--20th century--Sources
Sex instruction--United States--History--Sources
Women--Health and hygiene--History--20th century--Sources
Women's rights--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Brush, Dorothy Hamilton
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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
De Selincourt, Hugh, 1878-1951
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939
Gamble, Clarence James, 1894-
Hepburn, Katherine Houghton, 1878-1951
McCormick, Katherine Dexter, 1876-1967
Pincus, Gregory, 1903-1967
Rose, Florence
Rublee, Juliet
Sanger family
Stone, Abraham, 1890-
Stone, Hannah M. (Hannah Mayer), 1894-1941
Wells, H.G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
American Birth Control League--History
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (New York, N.Y.)--History
International Planned Parenthood Federation--History
Planned Parenthood Federation of America--History
Sophia Smith Collection
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century--Sources
New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century--Sources
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SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL 1889-1995, n.d.
The Personal records consist of checkbook stubs and expenses books, address books, Christmas lists, and a large number of calendars and appointment books (copies of which were filmed as part of the microfilm edition). These records provide an excellent source for names and addresses of Sanger friends and workers in the birth control movement. A small amount of material on Sanger's family includes family trees for Sanger/Higgins/Purcell and Slee, information on William Sanger's parents (including a 1903 letter from Edward Sanger to Andrew Carnegie), and the Higgins family bible showing Sanger's original birth date crossed-out and amended. Many of the documents in the subseries Awards, honors, anniversaries, and degrees duplicate material in the microfilm edition. The unfilmed material contains many clippings and the actual awards or medallions, etc. that were not microfilmed. Of particular note is a 1966 letter from President Lyndon Johnson to George Lindsay of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America regarding the Margaret Sanger Award; many acknowledgment letters pertaining to the honorary degree Sanger received from Smith College in 1949; and the 1991 Arizona Hall of Fame Award which spurred a debate in the press over accusations that Sanger was a racist. Film and television includes information on attempts to make a film about Sanger, as well as responses to some of Sanger's television appearances, most notably a 1952 Freedom Forum interview in Los Angeles, and her 1957 interview with Mike Wallace. [See also SERIES VII. AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL] The Homes subseries contains correspondence with contractors and bills from the construction of the Willowlake estate in Fishkill, New York in the early 1920s, and Sanger's Sierra Vista home in Tucson, Arizona which she built in 1949. Also included are various lists of furnishings and work assignments and schedules for domestic help. Arizona activities consists mainly of printed material and some correspondence related the local organizations Sanger belonged to or supported, such as the Tucson Festival of the Arts, the Tucson Medical Center (includes Florence Rose correspondence), and the Tucson Watercolor Guild. The subseries Margaret Sanger's death consists primarily of obituaries and news notices from clipping services. Also included are Congressional Record acknowledgments and documents related to Sanger's memorial services, including a letter from Florence Rose describing the memorial service for Sanger in New York. Miscellaneous contains material that has been arranged alphabetically by subject matter and includes such topics as art exhibits, Claverack College, Corning, New York, interior decoration, the Library of Congress collection of Sanger's papers, and the Society of Rosicrusians. Memorabilia, consisting primarily of gifts given to Sanger during her world travels, is included in this series. The final subseries, Research and publications about Sanger, contains writings by her contemporaries, biography manuscripts, oral histories, research papers, and theses. Much of the material in this series was written after Sanger's death in 1966. The subseries includes a copy of Harold Hersey's 1938 unpublished biography, Margaret Sanger: The Biography of a Birth Control Pioneer, the only biography written by a friend and colleague (one other copy is located in the New York Public Library). Manuscripts for two later, published biographies are also here: a typescript and research notebooks for Lawrence Lader's The Margaret Sanger Story, and a typescript for Madeline Gray's Margaret Sanger: Birth Control Pioneer. The several theses filed in the Research series include Alexander Sanger's 1969 Princeton undergraduate thesis on his grandmother during the years 1910 to 1917. This series also contains two interviews with Grant Sanger, and interviews with Nancy Sanger Ivins and Margaret Sanger Marston (Sanger's granddaughters), and Sanger's niece, Olive Byrne Richard. Many articles and biographical writings from magazines and birth control publications, such as the 1930 New Yorker profile of Sanger and the 1937 Life Magazine spread, are also located here.
See also SERIES X. OVERSIZE for additional biographical material.
SERIES II. WRITINGS AND SPEECHES (1840-1980, n.d.)
Sanger's writings in the unfilmed portion of her papers contain a number of foreign language versions of Family Limitation; two editions of What Every Girl Should Know, an edition of What Every Mother Should Know; a large amount of correspondence related to distribution and complimentary copies of Sanger's 1938 Autobiography; notes on a proposed play about birth control (possibly written by Henriette Posner); and notes and research materials that were probably used for drafting articles and speeches. The writings series also contains material on Sanger's 1940 speaking tour of Massachusetts and the infamous Holyoke incident.
SERIES III. THIRD PARTY CORRESPONDENCE AND RELATED MATERIAL (1877-1983)
This series includes correspondence regarding all aspects of the American and international birth control movements. The series incorporates correspondence, articles, reports and clippings related to Sanger's co-workers, other major players in the American birth control movement, particularly after 1930, and the chief organizers and financial supporters of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, established in 1952. This series also contains a significant amount of correspondence from Sanger family members and friends, and covers a wide range of projects and issues apart from birth control. Although most letters were filed under the author's name, each individual's file may contain both incoming and outgoing correspondence. Most letters written by secretaries or other organization staff were filed by recipient, as were letters written by little known or insignificant parties. Correspondence covering the major birth control organizations Sanger established, led, or in which she played a significant role is included in this series under individuals associated with a particular organization, as well as in SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES, under the name of the organization. The series IV correspondence tends to relate specifically to the work of the organization: letters written and received on behalf of organization staff. Series III correspondence is more difficult to categorize. It typically covers much broader themes and is, generally, less relevant to a specific organization. The series III correspondence is also more personal and reflective of the work and concerns of the author/recipient. For a list of organization personnel for the sixteen organizations that Sanger was associated with, see the organizational histories in the guide to The Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition: Smith College Collection Series. The files of several individuals in series III include a significant amount of correspondence related to specific organizations. The Florence Rose file contains material on the BCCRB, the NCFLBC, the BCFA, and the PPFA. Robert Dickinson's correspondence concerns his advisory role with the BCCRB and the work of the National Committee on Maternal Health. The correspondence filed under Hannah Stone and Abraham Stone relates to the affairs of the BCCRB and MSRB, as well as various contraceptive research and writing projects. Information on the NCFLBC can be found under Hazel Moore, George Hastings and Margaret Valiant, among others. Correspondence concerning PPFA affairs is most concentrated in the files of William Vogt and D. Kenneth Rose, two national directors of the organization. Correspondence related to the IPPF and international work is more plentiful. Major participants in the international movement represented here include: Dorothy Brush, Clarence Gamble, Shidzue Kato, Dhanvanthi Rama Rau, Abraham Stone, Ellen Watumull, Edith How-Martyn, C. P. Blacker, and Vera Houghton. The file on Shidzue Kato contains significant documentation on the Japanese birth control movement. Correspondence under Charles Scribner, William Mathews, and Elizabeth Newman concerns General Douglas MacArthur's 1949 decision to deny Sanger a visa to enter Japan. Dorothy Brush's and Clarence Gamble's correspondence/biographical files, the two largest in the series, provide a wealth of information on particular aspects of the birth control movement. Brush, a close friend of Sanger, travelled with her on several trips to Europe and Asia, edited the IPPF newsletter, and provided funding for Sanger. Her correspondence offers a more intimate account of some of Sanger's activities and the emergence of an organized birth control movement in Asia. While the Sophia Smith Collection houses a separate collection of Brush's papers, some of her writings, including drafts of an article about her travels with Sanger, can be found here. Additional Brush correspondence is located in the Smith College Honorary Degree file in series I. Gamble was associated in one way or another with each organization Sanger led. His correspondence documents his multifaceted role as benefactor, medical researcher, and movement gadfly. His papers, including many publications and research reports, also describe the grass roots efforts to set up birth control clinics and organizations in Asia and many non-industrialized countries. Information on contraceptive research is scattered throughout the correspondence. In particular, the correspondence of Lydia DeVilbiss, Gamble, and Abraham and Hannah Stone offers important supplementary documentation to the Sanger correspondence in the microfilm edition. The DeVilbiss correspondence primarily concerns her controversial work on developing and testing a foam powder contraceptive designed to be used by the uneducated and the poor. Her correspondence with Abraham Stone is located in the Stone file. Reports, articles, and correspondence concerning the development of the anovulant pill can be found under Katharine Dexter McCormick, John Rock, and Gregory Pincus. This series contains approximately twenty client letters (filed under "client"): inquiries from men and women seeking contraceptive information. This is a small number compared to the several hundred that are included in the microfilm editions of the Smith College Collections and the Library of Congress collection of Sanger's papers, but it is a valuable resource since many thousands of these letters were treated as confidential medical records and destroyed by Sanger and her co-workers. Printed material on the history of the English birth control movement and censorship is contained in the non-correspondence file of Annie Besant. Included are 19th century publications by Besant, information of the Besant-Bradlaugh trial, publications of the theosophical movement, and copies of Charles Knowlton's birth control tract, Fruits of Philosophy. Pamphlets and writings by Besant, C. R. Drysdale, Charles Vickery Drysdale, and Alice Drysdale Vickery also provide background on the Malthusian League, eugenics, and population control. Series III includes correspondence regarding efforts on the part of Sanger and Florence Rose, her long time secretary, to assist European refugees in emigrating to the U.S. during the late 1930s and 1940s. This correspondence is located under Anna Kreupl, Lilia Skala, Norbert Neufeld, Ludmilla Protitch, Leopold Pulitzer, Wilhelm Josefovitz, and Ludwig Chiavacci, and supplements the more extensive run of refugee correspondence in the microfilm edition. Significant correspondence between many of Sanger's closest friends can be found under Juliet Rublee, Dorothy Brush, Elizabeth Newman, Anne Kennedy, and Leighton Rollins, among others. The Rublee - Brush correspondence partially chronicles their long feud over who was most committed to Sanger's best interests. Much of the Rollins correspondence concerns his play about Sanger written in 1950. The Rollins, Brush, and Elizabeth Bacon correspondence also include discussions of Sanger's declining health during her final years. An exchange of love letters between Hugh de Selincourt and Francoise Cyon Lafitte is located in the Lafitte correspondence. The two carried on an affair for many years while Lafitte was living with Havelock Ellis and de Selincourt was married. Sanger's relevancy to this relationship (she was close friends and carried on long affairs with both de Selincourt and Ellis) is made apparent in her correspondence with Ellis, de Selincourt and Lafitte contained on both the Library of Congress and Smith College Collections microfilms. Series III contains important family correspondence and a few family records. The correspondence of Sanger's sisters, Anna Higgins, Ethel Byrne, and Mary Higgins includes several early letters. A large file concerning the disposition of William Purcell's (Sanger's maternal uncle) estate is located in the Anna Higgins correspondence. The non-correspondence file for Mary Higgins contains a journal (1895-1900) that includes passages on the death of their mother, Ann Purcell Higgins. The files on Sanger's sons, Grant and Stuart, are mostly composed of school and college records and early correspondence with friends and family. Included in Grant Sanger's correspondence are letters and cards written while escorting his mother on her ground-breaking 1922 world tour in which they travelled through Asia, northern Africa, and Europe. A few letters to Grant, Stuart and Peggy Sanger from their father are found under William Sanger, along with an early and barely legible diary. The large file on J. Noah Slee contains correspondence concerning the Three-in-One Oil Company, loans and investments; correspondence with business associate Norman Bray; and correspondence with his sons and daughter. Some of Slee's correspondence as treasurer of the BCCRB and NCFLBC is located in the correspondence files of the organizations in series IV. The non-correspondence filed under Slee includes divorce papers from his first marriage; expense books dating from 1891, address books, passports and appointment books; and horoscopes and psychic writings.
Finally, correspondence related to the collection and preservation of Sanger's papers in the Sophia Smith Collection is located under Margaret Grierson, Dorothy Brush, Leighton Rollins, and Grant and Stuart Sanger.
SERIES IV. ORGANIZATION AND CONFERENCE FILES (1903-1966)
This series is very incomplete and deficient in key documents. Core organization and conference records such as board and major committee minutes, annual reports, and publications, releases, pamphlets and other material written by Sanger or directly related to her work have been incorporated in the microfilm edition. For more information on the Sanger related birth control organizations, see the organizational histories in the guide to The Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition: Smith College Collection Series. The organization materials that remain in the unfilmed collection include records of the major birth control organizations that Sanger was associated with: the American Birth Control League (ABCL), Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB), Birth Control Federation of America (BCFL), Birth Control International Information Centre (BCIIC), International Committee on Planned Parenthood (ICPP), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Margaret Sanger Research Bureau (MSRB), National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control (NCFLBC), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), and World Population Emergency Campaign (WPEC). A smaller group of records covers many of the other organizations that were vital to Sanger's work, including the ACLU, the AMA, the American Nurses Association, the Human Betterment Association, the New York City Department of Health, and the Population Reference Bureau, among many others; English organizations that worked closely with Sanger: the Malthusian League (includes writings by Alice Vickery and C.V. Drysdale) and the Eugenics Society; and two early birth control organizations that competed with Sanger: the National Birth Control League and the Voluntary Parenthood League. However, most of these files contain only a few pamphlets or a small amount of correspondence. Limited records of several foundations that supported Sanger's work are also contained in this series. For each of the major Sanger birth control organizations, the records are arranged in roughly the same order: general information, correspondence, minutes, organizational memos, publications, reports, form letters. Some of the organizations include other categories of material which are filed in a logical progression. Most of the ABCL records cover the years 1929-1939 when Sanger was not active in ABCL affairs (she resigned as president in 1928). The correspondence in the ABCL files contains many letters to and from NCFLBC staff as the two organizations discussed issues related to congressional lobbying efforts and fund-raising. The ABCL publications file includes reports on and articles about the Birth Control Review, which was published under the auspices of the ABCL starting in 1923. All other records of the Review from the Sanger collection have been incorporated in the microfilm edition. The BCCRB records (1928-1939) include useful statistical reports on clinic patients (many of these monthly reports are summarized in annual reports incorporated in the microfilm edition), some of Florence Rose's field reports (many more reports are contained in the Florence Rose papers in the Sophia Smith Collection) conducted in conjunction with the NCFLBC, and a study on the Recreation Rooms and Settlement Birth Control Clinic (1933-1935), a satellite clinic located in the tenement district of New York's Lower East Side. Records of the BCCRB's Harlem Branch (1930-1936) are included in a separate grouping and provide more detail than parallel records in the microfilm edition. For clinic records prior to 1928 (when the clinic operated under the auspices of the ABCL), see information regarding the Clinical Research Bureau in the ABCL files. Additional records are located under the NCFLBC (the two organizations shared staff and conducted joint fund-raising projects). The records of the BCFA (1939-1942) include extensive publications, information on personnel, monthly reports submitted to the BCFA by the MSRB, and papers given at the 1941 annual meeting. The records also contain reports and correspondence related to the Division of Negro Services/Negro Project. A single folder on the BCIIC is comprised of publications distributed by the organization. A small amount of material is contained in the ICPP files (1948-1952). Most of the records duplicate what exists in the microfilm edition and concern efforts to consolidate the organization and organize a world conference in India in 1952 (at which the IPPF was formally established). The IPPF records span 1952 to 1964 and duplicate much of what is included in the microfilm edition. The files contain a number of drafts of constitutions and by-laws, committee minutes, publications chronicling the history of the international movement, regional and special subject reports, and conference programs. The unfilmed IPPF material includes comprehensive lists of members and representatives. The records of the MSRB (1940-1969) include detailed financial reports from the 1950s, considerable personnel information, and publications on the history of the clinic. Of particular interest are files containing transcripts of marriage counselling group sessions from 1946 to 1948. These transcripts, along with a small amount of correspondence, consist of very frank discussions about sexual dysfunction and achieving sexual compatibility. There is also a folder on proposals for a Margaret Sanger Memorial building and a group of photographs of the clinic. Some of the documents, the minutes in particular, are duplicated in the microfilm edition. The NCFLBC records (1929-1938) contain a large correspondence file, including a series of letters from the fund-raising consultants Tamblyn & Tamblyn; extensive reports on field work and lobbying activities; financial reports; proceedings of Congressional hearings; and collections of endorsements, statements and speeches in favor of birth control. In particular, the reports from individual field workers and lobbyists document the aims and agendas of the organization and provide material that is not always condensed in summary and yearly reports located in the microfilm edition. Some of the NCFLBC records overlap with BCCRB material since the two organizations shared staff members and pursued joint projects. Records of the PPFA (1942-1966) make up the largest group of organizational records in the unfilmed Sanger collection, but offer many documents that are available in the two microfilmed collections of Sanger's papers, as well as in the voluminous PPFA collection in the Sophia Smith Collection. The bulk of these files consist of committee minutes from the 1950s and 1960s and communications with affiliate organizations. There is minimal correspondence and noticeable gaps in the material covering the 1940s. A relatively complete run of budget and expense reports exists for the late 1950s. Notable among these records is an extensive publications file comprised of both propaganda materials and practical advice manuals, including a comic book, "Escape from Fear." The limited WPEC records (1960-1962) include correspondence primarily related to fund-raising; documents outlining the organization's close alignment with the IPPF and merger with PPFA; newsletters and copies of IPPF's Around the World News of Population and Birth Control (a complete run is available in the Sophia Smith Collection); and several key reports, including a "Preliminary Survey of the Population Problems and Family Planning Programs in Africa, Asia, and the Western Hemisphere," and travel reports on Asia written by George and Barbara Cadbury. The WPEC and PPFA records overlap to some extent since the organizations merged in 1961. Documents produced under the merged name of PPFA- WPEC can be found in the records of both organizations, although the preponderance of this material is filed under PPFA. The IPPF records also contain material related to WPEC, which served as a fund-raising vehicle for IPPF projects. Information on regional and state or country clinics or organizations is located in SERIES V. COUNTRIES AND REGIONS. The conference files span 1903 to 1960 and include documentation of small, regional conferences and major world population conferences. Core records have been incorporated in the microfilm edition. While there is some duplication between the filmed and unfilmed collections, the records here include documentation of the many contributions made by organizers of the conferences apart from Sanger. The early conference records consist primarily of proceedings, many of which were published. The files on the 1927 World Population Conference in Geneva contain several conference publications not included in the microfilm edition, along with photographs and a scrapbook containing cards of many of the participants. Records of the Seventh International Birth Control Conference in Zurich in 1930 include transcriptions of a large number of conference speeches. Files on the international planned parenthood conferences in 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957 (proposed) and 1959, offer substantial coverage of the events in the form of programs, clippings, speech transcriptions and proceedings, as well as correspondence on the organization of the conferences and lists of sponsors, contributors and conference delegates. Copies of some of the published conference proceedings can also be found in Sanger's library (SERIES VII. PRINTED MATERIAL).
SERIES V. COUNTRIES AND REGIONS (1885-1983)
This series contains alphabetical files on birth control activities in many U.S. states, and countries from all five continents. Clippings and printed material are most prevalent. Correspondence and reports are also included. Separate boxes contain substantial documentation on birth control activities in Japan and India, countries which became the focus of the international movement, as well as England, France, and Germany. The general countries files contain considerable material on Asian and Latin American countries. Most of the documentation dates from the 1950s and is linked to IPPF activities, although there are some records and publications that Sanger collected on her various world tours in the 1920s and 1930s. The large file on England consists of extensive publications from the late 19th century to the 1950s, including early pamphlets on population control and contraception, and writings of Marie Stopes; information on several clinics and birth control organizations, including the Family Planning Association, National Birth Control Association, and Walworth Women's Welfare Centre; and numerous news extracts, articles and reprints. Files on France and Germany contain many early and significant publications on Malthusian doctrine, sexual hygiene, contraception, and fertility studies. The box on India includes many publications put out by the Family Planning Association of India, information on conferences, reports chronicling initial efforts to organize birth control activities in India, and a small amount of correspondence largely related to IPPF matters. The files also contain several government publications and numerous clippings. The boxes on Japan contain a small amount of correspondence, some of which relates to General Douglas MacArthur's decision to deny Sanger a visa to enter Japan in 1950; reports; and a file on Japan birth control organizations which include important historical information on the history of the movement in Japan and the issue of population growth. The material on Japan also includes a large clipping file mostly covering the 1950s, and many publications printed in Japanese. The states files cover 37 states and date mostly from the late 1930s to the 1950s. The Arizona file contains photographs of Mexican-American families for a case history study conducted by the Tucson Mother's Clinic.
SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES (1761-1969)
They contain printed material, clippings, reports, and some correspondence regarding various topics related to birth control, population, sexuality, health, medicine, legal issues, and religion, among other topics. These files frequently duplicate printed material found in the SERIES IV. ORGANIZATION AND CONFERENCE FILES and SERIES V. COUNTRIES AND REGIONS. This series is an excellent source for historical material on the history of contraception and population control. It includes many late 19th century and early 20th century publications. The files on contraception and eugenics, along with a history file (containing mostly historical outlines and articles from the English publication, the Malthusian), a file on Malthus and Malthusianism, a large amount of material on Sex Education, including early pamphlets and publications from England, Sweden and the U.S., and the Legal files make up a core collection of historical materials on the roots of the American birth control movement. Of particular interest are the files on abortion, which include research, statistical information and some apocryphal stories on the illegal abortion industry, as well as some influential arguments in favor of legalizing abortion, such as A. J. Rongy's "Abortion and Birth Control." Along with the Records of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, a separate collection in the Sophia Smith Collection, the Contraception subject files provide one of the best sources of material on the history of contraceptive research and education. These files contain numerous 19th century publications for women, including catalogs of hygiene devices; popular marital guides from the 20th century; research publications on the use and effectiveness of specific contraceptive methods; and a large number of short guides written by physicians. Additional material on contraception is located throughout the subject files, particularly under Marriage, Medicine, Population, and Sex Education. Studies on eugenics and heredity can be located in separate files under Eugenics, Heredity and Mental Hygiene. These files contain many of the seminal works on eugenics written during the early part of the century that influenced the thinking of Sanger and other leaders in the birth control movement, including publications by Moses Harmon, C.V. Drysdale, and Raymond Pearl, as well as many pamphlets and propaganda materials put out by the American Eugenics Society and the Brush Foundation, and numerous scientific papers. Legal materials, filed under Laws, Legal Cases, and Legislation contain publications, briefs and other legal documents covering several significant cases, including the D. M. Bennett trial in 1879, the City of Portland vs. Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman in 1915, the arrest and trial of William Sanger in 1915, and the 1921 Town Hall Raid in New York. Also included are transcripts of laws and proposed laws, a list of birth control advocates who have received prison sentences, and published transcripts of Supreme Court and Congressional hearings on matters or cases related to birth control. The large Population files are composed of statistical studies and research reports, and cover many individual countries.
Related material can also be found under Birth Rates. The Religion files contain significant documentation by and about the Catholic Church, and, along with a small Anti-Birth Control file, represent the bulk of the birth control opposition material in series IV. One particularly useful file contains bibliographies of birth control literature and is located under Bibliography.
SERIES VII. PRINTED MATERIAL (1863-1981)
This series consists primarily of books and periodicals that were part of Margaret Sanger's personal library. There is also a collection of articles and newspaper clippings. The subject matter of this material reflects that of the rest of the Sanger Papers: birth control, population, eugenics, sex education, health, marriage, sexuality, and miscellaneous other topics.
SERIES VIII. AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS (1935-1993)
This series is equally divided between a small sampling of contemporary recordings and film footage of Sanger and documentaries made after her death. The Sound recordings subseries is arranged chronologically and consists of record album, reel-to-reel tape, and cassette tape formats. Most items have been reformatted for research use (these are noted in the Contents list). There are recordings of Sanger speeches and interviews and one made after Sanger's death of Elizabeth Bacon and Leighton Rollins discussing Sanger's last years. Films and videotapes include copies of four documentaries and two contemporary films of Sanger.
SERIES IX. PHOTOGRAPHS (1850-1966)
The Friends and associates subseries includes many "notables," such as Pearl Buck, Havelock Ellis, Mohandas Gandhi, Shidzue Kato, and many others. Box 112 contains photocopies for research purposes. See also SERIES X. OVERSIZE MATERIALS and APPENDIX: PHOTOGRAPHS LOCATED IN OTHER SERIES.
SERIES X. OVERSIZE MATERIALS
This series contains miscellaneous oversize items from most of the other series, arranged in the same order. The bulk of it consists of awards, honors, and memorabilia. The latter is primarily gifts given to Sanger during her world travels, including Japanese slippers, some scrapbooks, and drawings and sculptures of Sanger.
Two busts and one bas-relief of Sanger are located in the reading room.
Personal records
Expense books, 1930-54
Checkbook stubs
Taxes, 1953-54
Financial (miscellaneous), 1922-52
Address books, n.d.
Christmas lists, 1931-49
Journal (Grant Sanger in Russia), 1934
Margaret Sanger's contacts en route to India, China, 1935
Appointment calendars
Family tree (Higgins-Purcell and Slee families), 1965
Sanger family history (miscellaneous), 1903, 1995, n.d.
Family record from Sanger family Bible (photocopies)
Sanger family Bible, n.d.
Awards, honors, anniversaries, and degrees
American Woman's Association testimonial dinner, 1932
Twenty-first anniversary dinner, 1935
Town Hall Club award, 1937
Nobel Peace Prize nomination campaigns, 1938-60
Smith College honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, 1949
Lasker award, 1950
Women's Scholarship Association, Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1965
Third Class Order of the Precious Crown (Japan), 1965
Tucson testimonial dinner, 1965
University of Arizona honorary degree, 1965
Cordelia Scaife May, Chair of Family Planning at the University of West Virginia Medical School, 1966
Margaret Sanger Award (to Lyndon Johnson), 1966
Planned Parenthood, World Population Banquet, 1966
Margaret Sanger exhibit and symposium, 1966
Margaret Sanger College: Programs, 1969
National Women's Hall of Fame Award, 1981
Arizona Hall of Fame, 1991
International Planned Parenthood Federation, New Delhi, 1959
American Humanist Association, Humanist of the Year, 1957
Gold pendant (unidentified), n.d.
Town Hall Club, 1935
Family awards (milk carton tops), n.d.
Margaret Sanger Birth Control Conference, Zurich, 1930
American Woman's Association, 1931
Films and television
"No More Children" (early birth control film): Advertisement, n.d.
"Birth Right" (script for documentary film), 1948
Proposed film on life of Margaret Sanger, 1951-52
Documentary by Herman Engel, 1965-66
"Freedom Forum," 1952
General
Response against and for Margaret Sanger, 1952
Mike Wallace interview, 1957
Eisenhower and birth control, Tucson, 1959
Homes
Willowlake
General, 1925-47
Building and furnishings, 1922-23
Tucson
General, 1942-43, 1956
Sierra Vista, 1949-56
Domestic help schedules, 1938, 1942
Arizona activities
Arizona Children's Home Association, 1942
Education, 1952
"Hoof Prints" (Arizona calendar of events), 1952-1953
University Methodist Church, 1950-54
Tucson Festival of Arts, 1951
Tucson Fine Arts Association, 1951, n.d.
Tucson Medical Center
General, 1946, 1951
Florence Rose, 1945-46
Tucson Water Color Guild, 1950, 1951
Miscellaneous Tucson events and organizations, 1939-61
Margaret Sanger's death, 1966-67
Newspaper clippings
Memorial service, St. George's Episcopal Church
Congressional Record
Obituaries
List of obituary notices
Resolution relating to death of Margaret Sanger
Visitors to Margaret Sanger in nursing home in Tucson
Miscellaneous memorabilia
Art exhibits, 1948-61
Art work by Margaret Sanger, n.d.
Bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent, 1939-49
"Bookworm" publication (related to Mary Higgins?), 1890
Christmas cards (Sanger-Slee), 1945, n.d.
Christmas gift lists, 1948, n.d.
Christmas cards sent to Margaret Sanger, 1950-57
Claverack College, 1889, 1939
Contributions, 1943-57
Corning, New York and Higgins family: Clippings and recent correspondence about, 1917-77
Drawing of M. Sanger/poem by Beatrice [?], signed by Sanger "To Leighton [Rollins], The Poet Jester"
Entertainment (guest lists, menus, etc.), 1946-53
Fishkill, New York, n.d.
Genius analysis, 1932
Hair (locks of Sanger's hair), n.d.
Herbs, n.d.
Immigrants (sponsorship of), 1938-41
Interior decoration: New York School of Interior Design, n.d.
Invitations, 1932-62
Japanese slippers
Library of Congress, Sanger Collection
General, 1954, n.d.
Correspondence, 1965-66
Magazine subscriptions, 1942-53
Mailing lists, 1916-36
Maine Chance Farm and Arizona Maine Chance, n.d.
Medical reports, 1936
Membership cards, 1952-57
Miscellaneous, 1936-58
Notes (miscellaneous), 1922-60
Overseas Associations Incorporated (food-gift parcel service), 1947, 1950
Persons associated with Sanger (lists), 1960, 1967
Psychic writing, n.d.
Receipts, 1918-52
Social security card, n.d.
Societas Rosicruciana in America, 1932-56
Suffrage posters,
[see Flat File, drawer 3]
Travel, 1929-59
War ration books, 1942-43
Additional artwork and memorabilia
[see SERIES X. OVERSIZE and flat file]
Research and publications about Sanger
Articles and biographical writings about Sanger, 1923-91
Garrison, Webb, "Margaret Sanger: Rebel with a Cause," 1969
Gaulard, Joan M., "Woman Rebel: A Rhetorical Analysis of Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, 1912-38," Ph.D. dissertation prospectus, 1977
Gaulard, Joan M., "Woman Rebel: The Rhetorical Strategies of Margaret Sanger and the American Birth Control Movement 1912-1938," 1978
Gaulard, Joan M., "Shall We Break This Law? A Critical Review of Margaret Sanger's Agitational Methods for the American Birth Control Movement," paper presented at the Indiana Speech Association, 1977
Livingston, Barbara F., "Dreams and Inspirations: A Footnote to Biography of Margaret Sanger," thesis, Wesleyan University, 1974
Hersey, Harold Brainerd, Margaret Sanger: The Biography of The Birth Control Pioneer, 1938
[See also SERIES VII. PRINTED MATERIAL-Books on shelf, for bound volume]
Ivins, Nancy Sanger and Margaret Sanger Marston, interview by Jacqueline Van Voris, transcription, 1977
[Audio recording located in SERIES VIII. Audiovisual materials]
Johnson, Malia Sedgewick, "Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in Japan, 1921-55," Ph.D. dissertation, 1987
Morehouse, William M., "The Speaking of Margaret Sanger in the Birth Control Movement from 1916 to 1937," Ph.D. dissertation, 1968
Nicholson, Susan A., "Margaret Sanger, Rebellion and Respectability," thesis, Smith College, 1973
Reed, James W., "Margaret Sanger," paper presented to the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, October 25-26, 1974
Richard, Olive Byrne, interview by Jacqueline Van Voris, November 25, 1977, transcription, 1977
Sands, Cohen and Donna M. Whalen, "William Sanger," research paper, 1977
Sanger, Alexander Campbell, "Margaret Sanger: The Early Years, 1910-1917," undergraduate thesis, 1981
Sanger, Grant, interview by Ellen Chesler, August 1976, transcription
Sanger, Grant, interview by Jacqueline Van Voris, March 28, 1977, transcription
Simonds, Herbert, "Reminiscences of Herbert R. Simonds," n.d.
Gray, Madeline, Margaret Sanger, typescript, n.d.
Biography by Lawrence Lader, 1955
Typescripts
copy 1
copy 2
Contract, publicity, reviews, lists, and miscellaneous clippings, 1952-57, n.d.
Notes
Pamphlets (non-US editions), 1916-33
Debate on Birth Control (M. Sanger vs. Winter Russell), 1921
What Every Mother Should Know, 1914
What Every Girl Should Know, 1980 (reprint of 1920 ed.), n.d.
Motherhood in Bondage: Transcriptions of letters and complimentary copy list, 1929-31
Sayings of Others on Birth Control, New York Woman's Publishing Company, 1921
"Family Limitation": carbon copy, n.d.
Autobiography
Correspondence, 1940-43
Acknowledgments, 1941
Governor's wives mailing, 1941
Health and welfare groups, 1941-42
Key contacts, 1941-42
Mailing lists, 1941-42
Medical Association replies, 1942
Pioneer list, 1938
Medical society presidents, 1941-42
Norton publishers, 1940
State league lists and replies, 1941-43
"The Suppressed 'Obscene' Articles," [reprinted from The Woman Rebel, 1914], n.d.
Magazine articles by Margaret Sanger, 1914-60
Radio talks, 1935-53
Speeches
Notes and research materials, 1840-1952
Massachusetts lecture tour correspondence, 1940
Untitled play about birth control: Notes by Henriette Posner, 1941
Advertisements for Sanger writings, 1916, n.d.
Alden, Sue, 1938, 1962
Ames, Blanche, n.d.
Ashley, Grace H., 1937, 1938
Bacon, Elizabeth Grew, 1942-62
Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1952, n.d.
Benjamin, Hazel C., 1932-34
Besant, Annie, 1878-1933
Bingham, Mary C., 1944-46
Black, Algernon D., 1934, 1935, n.d.
Blacker, C.P., 1951-59
Blossom, Frederick, 1918-22
Brandt, Zelma, 1939, 1941
Brock, Marion Willis, 1935-42
Brush, Dorothy Hamilton, 1931-66
Buck, Pearl, 1934-44
Buckman, Rilma S., 1937-47
Burch, Guy Irving, 1932-45
Byrne, Ethel Higgins, 1918(?), n.d.
Cadbury, George, 1958, 1959
Cass, Muriel, 1936-38
Chiavacci, Ludwig, 1939-41
Client letters, 1935-51
Clyde, Ethel, 1939-50
Cook, Adelaide Pearson, 1918-66
Cook, Robert C., 1953, 1955
Cox, Charles, 1937, 1945
Cox, Harold, 1945, n.d.
Day, Jr., Rufus S., 1956-70
Delp, Mildred, 1949
Dennett, Mary Ware, 1918, 1928
DeSelincourt, Hugh, 1921-28
DeVilbiss, Lydia Allen, 1935-52
Dickinson, Robert L., 1929-43
DiGregorio, John, 1943, n.d.
Drysdale, C.R., 1877-1904
Drysdale, Charles Vickery, 1877-1923
East and West Foundation, 1935-44
Ellis, Havelock, 1898-1939
Ernst, Morris Leopold, 1936, 1966
Faggi, John and Beatrice, 1935, 1946
Fehring, Albert M., 1947
Ferguson, Rev. George, 1940
Fuld, Carrie B.F., 1942
Furst, F. Sidonie Chiavacci, n.d.
Gamble, Sarah, 1953, 1955
Gamble, Clarence (includes letters to Shidzue Kato, Arnold Toynbee, Dharivanthi Rama Rau, Dorothy Brush, Elise Ohesen-Jenson), 1937-70
Gates, Edith, 1954-59
Gilman, Mildred, 1953
Goetting, Betty Mary, 1949, 1950
Goldstein, Jonah J., 1966
Gordon, Leon, 1941
Greenbaum, Wolff, and Ernst, 1933-41
Grierson, Margaret, 1949-66
Griessemer, Thomas O., 1954-56
Gyanee, Bhagwan, 1938, n.d.
Hamlin, Scoville, n.d.
Hastings, George A., 1937-38
Henshaw, Paul S., 1952-54
Higgins, Anna E. ("Nan"), 1910-44
Higgins, Grant, 1942, 1948
Higgins, Mary (includes journal, 1895-1900), 1891-1926
Higgins, Michael, 1900-18
Higgins, Richard and Mabel, 1925-58
Higgins, Robert, 1913-58
Higgins, Virginia ("Ginger"), 1943, 1948
Himes, Norman E., 1931-38
Holland-Rantos Company, 1944-50
Holmes, John Hayes, 1938, 1953
Holt, Rackham, 1936-40
Hopkins, Prynce, 1958, 1962
Hoppe, Joan Sanger, 1948, 1949
Hornibrook, Ettie Rout, 1925-35
Houghton, Vera, 1925-59
How-Martyn, Edith, 1915-49
Huse, Penelope B.P., 1936, 1943
Huxley, Henry, 1938
Ingersoll, Marion, n.d.
Ishimoto, Arata, 1937(?), 1938
Johnson, Mary Compton, 1938-49
Johnson, R.W., 1941
Kato, Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, 1933-56
Kennedy, Anne, 1917-61
Kerr, R.B., 1942
Kingsbury, John, 1935
Kitzweger, Ben and Emma, 1936, 1949
Knopf, S. Adolphus, 1930, 1940
Kreupl, Anna, 1938, n.d.
Lader, Lawrence, 1953-55
Lafitte, Francoise Cyon, 1922-71
Lansing, Elizabeth, 1956
Larsen, Nils P., 1952, 1957
Lasker, Mary and Albert, 1940-42
Ledever, Ilse, 1952
Lewis, Joseph, 1959
Lilley, Madeline C., 1949
Little, Clarence Cook, 1936
Long, Elizabeth Barstow, 1941, 1948
Love, Florence, 1942
Macaulay, Mary, n.d.
MacDonald, Agnus Snead, 1934-63
Matthews, William R., 1949-58
McCormick, Katherine Dexter, 1954-59
McKinnon, Edna Rankin, 1938-47
McNamee, Dorothy, 1953, n.d.
Miller, Lois Mattox, 1950-1951
Mitchell, Daisy, 1934-59
Mohleri, Gladys, 1949
Moore, Hazel Z., 1933-47
Morain, Mary and Lloyd, 1958
Myers, Louise Chase, 1937, 1942
Nelson, Mary B., 1940, 1941
Neufeld, Norbert, 1938-42
Newman, Elizabeth, 1940-59
Norman, Dorothy, 1936-41
Nugent, Frank J., 1940-48
O'Connor, Robert, 1953
Ohesen-Jensen, Elise, 1953-60
Packard, Arthur, 1937-38
Page, Phyllis, 1937
Palmer, Eileen, 1937, 1983
Pincus, Gregory, 1953-59
Pittman, Hobson, 1946-52
Posner, Henriette, 1929-55
Prager, Hedwig, 1942
Protitch, Ludmilla, 1940-42
Pulitzer, Leopold, 1939-40
Rama Rau, Lady Dhanvanthi, 1951-57
Reiland, Reverend Karl, 1931, 1943
Remont, Ruby, 1940, 1946
Richard, Olive Byrne, 1926-69
Riese, Hertha, 1940-42
Ripley, Katie Rice and George, 1936-40
Rock, John, 1948-55
Rockefeller, Martha Baird and John D., Jr., 1949, 1955
Rogers, Mabelle and George, 1946, 1956
Rollins, Leighton, 1947-63
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1954
Roots, Margaret, 1957, 1959
Rose, D. Kenneth, 1939-48
Rose, Florence, 1931-66
Roseberry, Eleanor, 1940, 1941
Rublee, Juliet Barrett, 1922-58
Salter, Katherine, 1934-61
Sanger, Barbara Peabody, 1948-60
Sanger, Edwina, 1939, 1952
Sanger, Grant, 1908-69
Sanger, Peggy, n.d.
Sanger, Stuart, 1915-63
Sanger, William, 1914-52
Schoelkopf, Olive, 1949
Schuman, Anna Jane Phillips, 1936-42
Scribner, Charles Ezra, 1935, 1950
Sideri, Marcella, 1926-32
Simonds, Herbert R., 1940, 1948
Slee, J. Noah H., 1889-1943
Smith, Clarence L., 1941, 1942
Stone, Abraham, 1936-59
Stone, Hannah M., 1925-41
Sunday Worker, 1936
Tagore, Rubindranth, 1930
Tallent, Roxie, 1937
Toy, J.J., n.d.
Union of East and West, 1936
U, n.d.
Valiant, Margaret Mims, 1946-59(?)
van Buren, Helen, 1934-38
Vandever, Martha, 1930-36
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1938, 1961, n.d.
Vickery, Alice Drysdale, 1887-98
Vogt, William, 1951-58
Voorsanger, Henriette, 1937-49
Voronoff, Liza and John, n.d.
Wadia, Arabai B., n.d.
Watumull, Ellen J., 1951-66
Wells, H.G., 1944, 1946
Wile, Ira Solomon, 1942, 1943
Williams, William, 1920, n.d.
YWCA, 1937-46
Zborowski, Hazel, 1935-38
Zonite Products Corporation, 1937
Unidentified, 1907-94
American Birth Control League
General, 1921-38
Correspondence, 1922-38
Minutes, 1937
Publications
Pamphlets and clinic literature, 1925-38
Birth Control Review, 1929-35
Reprints, 1926-38
Reports
General, 1925-35
James F. Cooper, 1926
Forms, n.d.
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
General, 1930-38
Correspondence, 1929-39
Publications, 1937-38
General, 1928-39, n.d.
Contributions, 1928-29
Florence Rose, 1936
Patient consultation, n.d.
Recreation Rooms and Settlement Birth Control Clinic, 1933
Abstracts, 1938
Press releases, 1938, n.d.
Personnel, 1931-35
Form letters, 1936, 1938, n.d.
Contraceptive instruction, n.d.
Photographs, n.d. (circa 1930s)
Harlem Branch Clinic
Correspondence, 1931-36
General, 1930-32
Monthly, 1935
Financial, 1932
Clippings, 1941
Birth Control Federation of America
General, 1939-42
Correspondence
Division of Negro Service/Negro Project, 1939-41
Organizational memos, 1940
Pamphlets and brochures, 1940-41
Reprints, 1938-41
General, 1940-42
Division of Negro Service/Negro Project, 1940-43
Annual meeting papers, 1940-42
Monthly clinic reports (BCCRB/MSRB), 1939-42
Form letters, 1940
Affiliated clinic literature, forms, and cards, 1939
Abstracts, 1939-41
Forms, 1941, n.d.
Clippings, 1941, 1942
Photographs, 1942, n.d.
Birth Control International Information Centre, n.d.
International Committee on Planned Parenthood
Correspondence, 1951
Minutes, 1951
Reports, 1948-52
International Planned Parenthood Federation
General, 1952-58
Aims and objectives, constitutions, and by-laws, 1953-54
Correspondence, 1953-64
Minutes, 1953-64
Organizational memos, 1954-64
Publications, 1955-62
General, 1953-61
Financial, 1953-61
Conference programs, 1957-64
Member lists, 1952-62
Clippings, 1953-55
Activities (photostatic copies)
[see Flat File]
Margaret Sanger Research Bureau
General, 1940-60
General, 1940-66
Twenty year anniversary pamphlet, 1943-46
Staff memos, 1941-48
Minutes, 1940-46
Publications, 1943-63
General, 1942-70
Financial statements and budgets, 1950-61
Marriage counselling group sessions, 1946-48
Press releases, 1960
Form letters, 1962-63
Personnel, 1943, n.d.
Invitations, 1959-61
Schedules, 1960-61
Margaret Sanger Memorial, 1967-69
Photographs, 1944-46, n.d.
National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control
General, 1929-38
Helen Countryman Gracey, 1936-37
Tamblyn and Tamblyn (professional fund raisers), 1934-36
Minutes, 1930, 1936
Reprints, 1928-35
Clippings and magazine articles, 1935-37
Newsletters, 1930-36
Press releases, 1932-37
Financial statements and budgets, 1930-36
Treasurer, 1935-36
Contribution lists, 1929-32
Field work, 1932-38
Legislative reports, 1936
Form letters, 1933-36
Endorsements, 1934-36
Statements in support of birth control, 1932-34
Speeches, 1931-36
Hearings, 1932-35
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
General, 1943-63
Correspondence, 1942-61
Constitution, by-laws, 1962, n.d.
Minutes
Research committees, 1956-61
Affiliates committee, 1959-62
Executive committee, 1944, 1957
Field committee, 1948-57
Medical committee, 1946-61
Miscellaneous, 1951-59
"The Anatomy of a Victory," 1959
Comic books, 1956, 1962
General, 1942-66
Lists, 1951-62
Press releases, 1941-61
General, 1942-62
Financial reports and budgets, 1942-62
Clinics, 1943-48
Memoranda and notes to affiliates, 1942-62
Form letters, 1942-60
Lists of offices/staff, 1942-62
Standards of affiliation, 1943-62
Nominating committee (proposed nominations), 1953-61
Addresses and speeches, 1947-64
Conference and event programs, invitations, agendas, and seating lists, 1943-62
World Population Emergency Campaign
General, 1960
Correspondence, 1960-62
Minutes, 1960-61
Organizational memos, 1960-62
General, 1960-64
News of Population and Birth Control, 1960-61
General, 1958-61
Travel reports on Asia by George and Barbara Cadbury, 1960-61
A - L
American Civil Liberties Union, 1933-47
The American Eugenics Society, Inc., 1930-57
American Fund for Public Service, 1926-31
American Genetic Association, n.d.
American Humanist Association, 1960-61
American Institute of Family Relations, 1938-44
American Medical Association, 1933-38
American Neurological Association, 1937, 1938
American Nurses Association, 1936-37
American Woman's Association, 1939
Association for Voluntary Sterilization, Inc., 1968
Committee of One Hundred, 1917
Eugenics Society, 1930-56
Fertility Research Institute, 1954
Freethinkers of America, 1941
Human Betterment Association, 1952-60
Institute of Feminine Hygiene, 1932
International Medical Group for the Investigation of Contraception, 1929-34
International Neo-Malthusian Bureau of Correspondence and Defence, 1915
International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems, 1931
League of Nations, 1923-26
M - Z
Malthusian League, 1908-56
Maternity Center Association, 1929
Methodist Overseas Relief Committee, n.d., 1948, 1951
National Birth Control League, 1916-18
National Committee on Maternal Health, 1928-34
National Resources Planning Board, 1940, 1941
New York City Department of Health, 1940-49
Population Control, 1955-60
Population Reference Bureau
General, 1933-62
Press releases, 1958-62
United Nations - World Health Organization, 1952
United World Federalists, Inc., 1942-48
Voluntary Parenthood League, 1919-21
Women's City Club of New York, 1941
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1934
Foundations
Brush, 1944-59
Doris Duke, 1937-55
Milbank Memorial Fund, 1936-50
Watumull, 1947-64
William C. Whitney, 1940, 1941
Conferences
Historical outline of birth control conferences, n.d.
Population Problem Conference, Paris, 1903-1904
Birth Control Mass Meeting, Rochester, NY, 1917
Eastern States Conference on Birth Control, New York City, 1918
American Birth Control Conference, 1st, New York City, 1921
International Birth Control Conference, Fifth, 1922
Middle Western States Birth Control Conference, Chicago, 1923
Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference, 6th, New York, 1925
Southern California Conference on Modern Parenthood, Los Angeles, 1926
Institute of Politics Conference, Williamstown, MA, 1926
World Population Conference, Geneva, 1927
Programs, announcements, press releases, and invitations
Menu (with cartoon "Vive le Bebe")
See Flat File
Address book
Journal and miscellaneous
Proceedings
Photographs
Scrapbook
International Conference of Social Work, Paris, 1928
World League for Sexual Reform, World Congress, Copenhagen, 1928
Western States Conference on Birth Control and Population Problems, Los Angeles, 1930
International Congress for Sex Research, 2nd, London, 1930
International Birth Control Conference, 7th, Zurich, 1930
Programs
List of members
Accounts
Papers
Miscellaneous
Conference on Birth Control in Asia, London, 1933
American Conference on Birth Control and National Recovery, Washington, DC, 1934
International Congress for Sex Reform, 5th, 1934
Conference on Contraceptive Research and Clinical Practice, New York, 1936
Regional Conference of Western States on Birth Control (proposed), Los Angeles, 1937
Southern Conference on Tomorrow's Children, Atlanta, 1941
International Congress on Population and World Resources, Cheltenham, England, 1948
World Movement for World Federal Government, Luxembourg Congress, 1948
International Conference on Planned Parenthood, 3rd, Bombay, 1952
Programs and agenda items
Sponsors and contributors
Press releases
Resolutions, reports, and background material
International Conference on Planned Parenthood, 4th, 1953
International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region Conference on Population Problems and Family Planning, San Juan, 1955
International Conference on Planned Parenthood, 5th, Tokyo, 1955
Sponsors and contributions
Invitations
Clippings
Papers and miscellaneous
International Conference on Planned Parenthood, 6th (proposed), Washington, DC, 1957
International Conference on Planned Parenthood, 6th, New Delhi, 1959
Reports and resolutions
A New Look at the Population Crisis Conference, Dallas, 1960
Arabia, 1931(?)
Argentina, 1935
Australia, 1936-54
Austria, 1951-57
Belgium, 1955-59
Bermuda, 1951, 1958
Brazil, 1940
British West Indies, 1951, 1954
Burma, 1937-61
Canada, 1935-63
Ceylon, 1951-59
China, 1933-65
Cuba, 1938-44
Denmark, 1928-64
Egypt, 1937, 1969
Europe, 1931-51
Finland, 1940, 1949
Guatemala, 1934
Haiti, 1932
Hong Kong, 1951-61
Iceland, 1937
Indo-China, 1939, n.d.
Indonesia, 1951-59
Israel, 1938-55
Italy, 1926-62
Jamaica, 1939-70
Korea, 1954
Lithuania, 1929-33
Malaya, 1958, n.d.
Mexico, 1932-61
Natal, 1960-61
Nepal, 1959
Netherlands, 1924-39
New Zealand, 1937-60
Norway, 1936
Pakistan, 1957-58
Philippines, 1936-60
Poland, 1962
Puerto Rico, 1932-62
Singapore, 1951-61
South Africa, 1938-53
Southern Rhodesia, 1960
Spain, 1921-52
Sweden, 1924-57
Switzerland, 1930-50
Thailand, 1959-67
Tonga, 1950-51
Trinidad and Tobago, 1937-64
Union of South Africa, 1949, 1953
USSR, 1933-56
Venezuela, 1964
Yugoslavia, 1954
England
General, 1934-36
Reports, 1942-55
Marie Stopes: Pamphlets and clippings, 1922-62
Family Planning Association
General, 1947-59
Annual reports, 1941-59
Iona Education Centre, 1955-60
Manchester, Salford, and District Mother's Clinic for Birth Control, n.d.
National Birth Control Association, 1932-38
North Kensington Marriage Welfare Centre, 1953, n.d.
Sex Education Centre, n.d.
Walworth Women's Welfare Centre, 1925-34
Worker's Birth Control Group, n.d.
News extracts (typescripts), 1937-58
Articles, 1933-51
Reprints, 1911-59
Pamphlets, nineteenth century
Pamphlets, 1904-50
France
General, 1957-58
Correspondence, 1954-58
Clippings, 1955-61
Publications, 1897-1956, n.d.
Germany
General, 1930-60
Correspondence, 1949, 1956, n.d.
Reports, 1931-55
Articles and Periodicals, 1929-59
Clippings, 1940-61
Pamphlets, 1885-1932
India
General, 1930-61
Correspondence, 1951-57
Reports, 1936-58
Family Planning Association of India, 1951, 1955
Invitations, 1951-59
Newsletters and bulletins, 1933-67
Articles, 1928-55
Reprints, 1933-61
Journals, 1948-61
Clippings, 1935-58
Pamphlets, 1929-60
Conference reports and proceedings, 1951-59
Japan
Correspondence, 1937-54
Minutes, reports of meetings, and conferences, 1949-54
General, 1930-54
Statistical reports, petitions (?) in Japanese text, n.d.
Birth control organizations, 1951-56
M. Sanger's 1954 trip: Speeches, reports, and newsletter
Invitations, cards, addresses, 1954-59
"History of Planned Parenthood Movement in Japan" by Johnson Kung-ti Shing, 1957
General, 1936-55
Mainichi newspapers, 1952, 1965
Photographs, 1947, 1948, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1934-59
Articles, 1936-59
Toyohiko Kagawa: Biographical material, 1936, 1937, n.d.
Pamphlets, 1932-61
"An Outline of the Institute of Population Problems," n.d.
The World of Obstetrics and Gynecology (commemorative issue), 1955
Publications in Japanese, n.d.
Omei Illustrated Guide Book, by Huang Shou-fu and T'an Chung-yo, with an English translation, 1936
United States
Alabama, 1938-41
Arizona, 1935-58
Arkansas, 1938, 1954
California, 1930-54
Colorado, 1951
Connecticut, 1937-83
Delaware, 1934-38
Florida, 1937-38
Georgia, 1939, 1940
Hawaii, 1936-37
Idaho, 1935
Illinois, 1917-56
Indiana, 1936-51
Iowa, 1938
Kentucky, 1936-38
Maine, 1937-38
Maryland, 1929, 1931, 1979
Massachusetts, 1930-48
Michigan, 1931-39
Minnesota, 1937-38
Missouri, 1937-60
New Hampshire, 1938-39
New Jersey, 1929-43
New Mexico, 1937
New York, 1936-62
North Carolina, 1938-41
Ohio, 1930-57
Oklahoma, 1936-38
Oregon, n.d.
Pennsylvania, 1931-38
Rhode Island, 1937-39
Tennessee, 1937-39
Texas, 1937-58
Vermont, 1937-38
Virginia, 1935-39
Washington DC, 1937-58
West Virginia, 1938-39
Wisconsin, 1938
Miscellaneous clinics, 1932-38
Abortion
General, 1920-64
Abortion Law Reform Association: Newsletters and publications, 1949, 1954
Natalidad Mortalidad Maternidad y Aborto by Jose Chelala-Aguilera, 1937
Adolescence, 1931-32
Adoption, 1943-45
Anti-birth control, 1917-37
Artificial insemination, 1941-56
Bibliographies, 1918-53
Birth rate, 1905-50
Censorship, 1903-39
Child labor, 1940, 1944
Child welfare, 1930, 1943
Clinics, 1917-42
Crime and criminals, 1936, 1941, n.d.
Contraception
General, 1917-50
Techniques, 1761-1934
Techniques, 1935-1950, n.d.
Catalogues, 1931, n.d.
Reprints, 1928-60
Clippings, 1938-69
Delinquents, 1922-35
Disease, 1872-1956
Economics, 1904-38, n.d.
Employment and unemployment, 1928-44
Eugenics, 1905-50
Euthanasia, 1939-61
Family life, 1927-46
Family planning, 1941, 1949
Feminism, 1915, 1934 (?)
Fertility, 1930-52
Heredity, 1870-1943
History, 1910-49
Homosexuality, 1905, 1954
Infant mortality, 1922, 1939, n.d.
Infertility, 1913-60
Laws and criminal statutes on birth control, 1870-1935
Legal cases
Miscellaneous, 1821-1940
Brownsville clinic, 1917
Dorothea Palmer (Eastview case), 1955
M. Sanger's Portland arrest for selling Family Limitation, 1916
William Sanger, 1915
Town Hall raid (Rublee hearing), 1921
Sentences of birth control advocates, n.d.
Supreme Court hearings, 1931-60
Legislation
General, 1921-42
Congressional hearings, 1924-32
Congressional hearings, 1933-35
Congressional Record, 1934, 1952
New York State Assembly, 1923
Thomas Malthus and Malthusianism, 1832-1938
Marriage, 1922-58
Maternal health, 1886-1941
Medicine, 1925-57
Menstruation and menopause, 1933-52
Mental hygiene, 1918-52
Midwives, 1936, 1960
Migrant workers, 1920-49
Population
Research and reports, 1929-56
Pamphlets, 1841-1962
Reprints, 1921-61
Periodicals, 1931-57
Articles, 1928-69
League of Nations publications, 1926, 1927
Addresses, 1944-68
Population and Migration, Vol. II (University of Chicago, Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation, Reports of Round Tables), 1929
Australia, 1920-23
England, 1888-1954
France, 1921-29
Germany, 1925, 1942
India, 1935-52
Italy, 1932, 1953
Japan, 1950-60
Puerto Rico, 1936, 1956
Sweden, n.d.
Pregnancy, 1922-38
Prostitution, 1914-31
Psychology and psychoanalysis, 1919-45
Public health, 1924-42
Religion
General, 1922-60
Catholic church, 1920-58
Catholic church, 1929-58
Judaism, 1932-35
Protestant, 1924-61
Society of Friends, 1934, n.d.
National Clergymen's Advisory Council, 1929-34
"The Churchman," 1934-52
"Information Service" (publication of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America), 1931-56
Together Magazine (Methodist publication), 1960
Clippings (views of the clergy), 1944-49
Sex education
Early pamphlets, 1850-1924
England, 1943-47
Sweden (Maj-Briht-Bergstrom-Walau), 1946-68
United States, 1904-51
Sex offenses, 1939
Sterilization, 1926-62
Venereal diseases, 1918-41
Women's rights, 1891-1941
Periodicals
Affiliates Bulletin (PPFA), 1952-61
The Antiseptic, 1911
Biology and Human Affairs, 1947, 1949
The Birth Control (Japanese), 1933, 1952
Birth Control Herald, 1925
[see also SERIES X. OVERSIZE]
Birth Control News, 1922-1940 (3 bound volumes)
Birth Control Review, 1917-1937
(see shelves in Reading Room for bound volumes)
Birth Control News, 1935-1940 (unbound issues)
Birth Control Review, 1938-1940 (unbound issues)
The Bulletin (Birth Control Federation of America, Inc.), June 1940
Channels (National Publicity Council for Health and Welfare Service), 1943
Eugenical News, 1916-1939
Eugenical News, 1940-49 (later Eugenics Quarterly)
Eugenics, 1929-31
Eugenics Quarterly, 1954-1967 (formerly Eugenical News)
Eugensia (Mexico), 1943-45
Family Planning (The Family Planning Association, London), 1952-76
Family Planning News (India), 1960-61
Family Planning News (Japan), 1961
Family Planning/Population Reporter, 1972-81
Grande Reforme, 1933-39, 1947, 1949
Hamdard-I-Sehat, July 1939
Holland-Rantos Monthly Press Clipping Service, 1941-47
Human Fertility (formerly Journal of Contraception), 1935-45 (bound volumes)
Indian Medical Journal, May 1952
Information Service (Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America), 1931
The Japan Planned Parenthood Quarterly, 1950-55
Journal of Contraception
see Human Fertility
The Journal of Family Welfare, 1955-75
The Journal of Family Welfare, 1976-85
Journal of Heredity, 1946-49
The Journal of Sex Education, 1949-52
The Journal of Social Hygiene,1940-47
Living, 1940
Lucifer the Light Bearer, 1897-1907
[See also SERIES X. OVERSIZE for 1886-1894]
Madras Birth Control Bulletin, 1932-38
Malaysian Medical Journal, 1936-37
The Malthusian, 1915-52 (entitled The New Generation, 1922-49)
Marriage and Family Living, 1941-52
Marriage Hygiene, 1934-37 (3 bound volumes)
The New Generation
see The Malthusian
La Maternite Heureuse, 1956-60
Medical Woman's Journal, March 1943
Medicina de Hoy (Cuba), 1937-38
The Mother (The American Committee on Maternal Welfare), 1941
Mother & Child (National Council for Maternal and Child Welfare, London), May 1941
National Life, 1929-31
Die Neue Familie, 1950-59
Die Neue Familie, 1960-66
Peking Review, 1958
People, April 1931
Planned Parenthood Bulletin (Family Planning Association of India), 1953-80
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. News Letter, May 1942
Planned Parenthood News (Chicago), 1947-61
Planned Parenthood News (PPFA), 1952-64
Planning, 1954-55
Population: Journal of the International Union for theScientific Investigation of Population Problems, June 1933
Population: Revue Trimestrielle de L'Institut National D'Etudes Demographiques, January - March 1956
Le Probleme Sexuel, 1933-35
Sexology, 1954, 1956
Vox Medica (Germany), 1920
Vox Studentium: The International Student Magazine, 1927
The Woman Rebel, 1914
[see SERIES X. OVERSIZE--Sanger library and Flat File]
World Peace through Spiritual Regeneration, 1935-39
Newspaper clippings and magazine articles
1938 (rhythm method)
1939 (Englewood, NJ school issue)
1947 (doctor's dismissal)
Miscellaneous unsorted
Undated
Cartoons
John F. Kennedy nomination controversy
Frontspiece from book in Sanger's library: The Way of the Pilgrim, by R.M. French, 1930
Books from M. Sanger's library (on shelf)
Balfour, Evans, Notestein, Taeuber, Public Health and Demography in the Far East, 1955
Bebel, Woman and Socialism, 1910
Bell, The Sex Complex, 1920
Besant, Autobiographical Sketches, 1885
Bonar, Malthus and His Work, 1924
Borrie, Population Trends and Policies, 1948
Borsook, Vitamins: What They Are and How They Can Benefit You, 1941
Bridges, The Fine Art of Marriage, 1930
Burch and Pendell, Population Roads to Peace or War, 1945
Cape, Preparation for Marriage, 1932
Carr-Saunders, Eugenics, 1926
Carr-Saunders, The Population Problem, 1922
Caton, The Key of Progress: A Survey of the Status and Conditions of Women in India, 1930
Chachuat, Le Mouvement du "Birth Control" Dans Les Pays Anglo-Saxons, 1934
Charles, The Sexual Impulse, 1935
Charles, The Practice of Birth Control, 1932
Child, Love and Unlove, 1921
Cleland, The Population Problem in Egypt, 1936
Clonston, New Tracts for the Times: Morals and Brain, 1912
Coigney, Margaret Sanger: Rebel With a Cause, 1969
Commander, The American Idea, 1907
Coulter, The Evolution of Sex in Plants, 1914
Cox, The Problem of Population, 1923
Crackanthorpe, Population and Progress, 1907
Damon, I Learned about Women from Them, 1962
Darwin, What Is Eugenics?, 1929
Davies, New Elementary Algebra, 1863
Davis, The Population of India and Pakistan, 1951
Dawson, Aggression and Population, 1946
Day, The Evolution of Love, 1954
De Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1953
Delisle, Friendship's Odyssey: The Autobiography of Francois Delisle and the Story of Havelock Ellis from 1916 to 1939, 1946
Delisle, Francois, 1962
Delisle, Friendship's Odyssey: In Love with Life, 1964
Dennett, Birth Control Laws, 1926
Dickenson and Bryant, Control of Contraception, 1931
Dock, Hygiene and Morality: A Manual for Nurses and Others, Giving an Outline of the Medical, Social, and Legal Aspects of the Venereal Diseases, 1910
Drucker and Hexter, Children Astray, 1923
Drysdale, The Small Family System, 1917
Dublin, Population Problems in the United States and Canada, 1926
Durand-Wever, Die Verhutung Der Schwanger-Schaft, 1931
Elgstrom, Tidens Kvinnor, 1944
Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6, Sex Relation to Society, 1911
Everett, The Hygiene of Marriage, 1932
Fairchild, The Melting Pot Mistake, 1926
Fairchild, People: The Quantity and Quality of Population, 1939
Fielding, Parenthood: Design or Accident? A Manual of Birth Control, 1928
Fielding, Birth Control in Asia: A Report of a Conference Held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, November 24-25, 1933, 1935
Fielding, Sanity in Sex, 1920
Fishbein and Burgess, Successful Marriage, n.d.
Florence, Birth Control on Trial, 1930
Frank, Personal Counsel, 1946
Freeman, Social Decay and Regeneration, 1921
Fyfe, Revolt of Women, 1933
Gallichan, The Psychology of Marriage, 1918
Goldstein, The Meaning of Marriage, 1940
Gorst, Race and Sex Booklets: Education and Race-Regeneration, 1913
Haire, Some More Medical Views on Birth Control, 1928
Haldane, Heredity and Politics, 1938
Hall, Life, and Love, and Peace, 1909
Hamilton, A Research in Marriage, 1929
Hartley, Sex Education and National Health, 1920
Hershey, Margaret Sanger: Birth Control Pioneer, 1938
Himes, Medical History of Contraception, 1936
Holmes, Marriage and Divorce, 1913
Holmes, The Trend of the Race, 1921
Horton, New Tracts for the Times: National Ideals and Race-Regeneration, 1912
Hooker, The Laws of Sex, 1921
Huhner, Disorders of the Sexual Function, 1917
Huxley, The Stream of Life, 1926
Ingram, Sexual Morality, 1922
International Labour Office, Migration Laws and Treaties, Volume I: Emigration Law and Regulation, 1928
Jennings, The Biological Basis of Human Nature, 1930
Johnsen, Birth Control, 1925
Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Volume 10, Number 1, May-June 1943
Key, Love and Ethics, 1911
Key, The Century of the Child, 1909
Kollwitz and Crede, Volk in Not!, 1927
Korner, Fammtliche Berte, n.d.
Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, n.d.
Ladies Review (in Japanese), n.d.
Lloyd, The Karezza Method or Magnetation: The Art of Connubial Love, n.d.
Latz, The Rhythm, n.d.
Lewin and Gilmore, Sex Without Fear, 1950
Lamson, My Birth: The Autobiography of an Unborn Enfant,1916
Laughlin, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States, 1922
Lorimer and Osborn, Dynamics of Population, 1934
Lorimer, Winston, and Kiser, Foundations of American Population Policy, 1940
Lyttelton, The Christian and Birth Control, 1929
Marchant, Birth Rate and Empire, 1917
Meisel-Heiss and Robinson, The Sexual Crisis, 1917
Merckx, The Bolshevism of Sex: Femininity and Feminism, 1921
Meyer, New Tracts for the Times: Religion and Race-Regeneration, 1912
Moore, The Case Against Birth Control, 1931
Old Moore's Almanack, 1928
Olivetti, Il Controllo Delle Nascite, 1957
Parker and Watson, National School Series: National Fourth Reader, 1866(?)
Parliamentary Debates: House of Commons Official Report, Volume 329, Number 25, 1937
Pierpont, International Birth Control Conference: Report of the Fifth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference, 1922
Pitt-Rivers, Problems of Population: Proceedings of the International Population Union, 1932
Problems of the Pacific: Proceedings of the Second Conference Institute of Pacific Relations, Honolulu, 1927
Proceedings of the International Congress on Population and World Resources in Relation to the Family, 1948
Pugh, The Great Unborn: A Dream of To-Morrow, 1918
Raleigh, Woman and Superwoman, 1916
Ramus, Marriage and Efficiency, 1922
Robie, A Commonplace Life, n.d.
Robinson, Seventy Birth Control Clinics: A Survey and Analysis Including the General Effects of Control on Size and Quality of Population, * Two copies, one is a book and one is a pamphlet, 1930
Robinson, Pioneers of Birth Control, 1919
Robinson, Birth Control or the Limitation of Offspring, 1916
Robinson, Eugenics and Marriage, 1917
Robinson, Practical Eugenics, 1912
Robinson, Woman, 1922
Rout, Safe Marriage, 1922
Royal Commission on Population Report 1949
Royden, Sex and Common Sense, 1922
Rutgers, Eugenics and Birth Control, 1923
Book written in Japanese (?), n.d.
Sanger, Proceedings of the World Population Conference, 1927
Sanger, What Every Boy and Girl Should Know, 1925
Sanger, What Every Mother Should Know, 1925
Sanger and Stone, The Practice of Contraception, 1931
Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928
Sanger, The Case for Birth Control, 1917
Sanger, Happiness in Marriage, 1926
Sanger, Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, 1938
Sanger, The New Motherhood, 1922
Sanger, Die Neue Mutterfchaft, 1927
Sanger, My Fight for Birth Control, 1931
Index to the First Edition (1931) of My Fight for Birth Control by Margaret Sanger
Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, 1922
Sanger, What Every Girl Should Know, 1922
Sanger, Women and the New Race, 1920
Sanger, Women and the New Race(in Japanese), 1920
Sanger, History of Prostitution, 1897
Sinclair, World's End, 1940
Steiner, Sexualnot und Sexualreform: verhandlungen Der Weltiga Fur Sexualreform, 1931
Stekel, Frigidity in Woman, 1926
Stekel, Peculiarities in Behavior, Volume I, 1924
Stockham, Karezza, 1903
Stoddard, The Revolt Against Civilization, 1922
Stone, Hos Lakaren Svar pa Sexualfrager Avlakarna, 1951
Stone, Laakari Vastaa Sukupuolikysymyksiin, 1946
Stone and Himes, Planned Parenthood, 1951
Stopes, Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of the Sex Difficulties, 1918
Stopes, Radiant Motherhood, 1920
Stopes, Wise Parenthood: A Sequel to "Married Love" (booklet), 1918
Stopes, Wise Parenthood: The Treatise on Birth Control for Married People. A Practical Sequel to "Married Love, 1918
Storrow, Our Sisters in India, n.d.
Stowell, Sex for Parents and Teachers, 1921
Swinburne, Population and the Social Problem, 1924
Stalmey, Love, 1919
Thompson, Science for War and Peace Series: Plenty of People, 1944
Thomson, The Control of Life, 1921
Thomson, What is Man?, 1924
Thorton, How to Achieve Sex Happiness in Marriage, 1939
Todd, Easier Motherhood: A Discussion of the Abolition of Needless Pain, 1931
Valabregne, Controle Des Naissances et Planning Familial,1960
Van de Velde, Ideal Marriage, 1928
Van de Velde, Sex Hostility in Marriage, 1931
Walker, The Traffic in Babies, 1918
Washburn, So You're Going to Have a Baby, 1933
Weill-Halle, La Grand'Peur d'Aimer: Journal d'Une Femme Medecin, 1960
Wexberg, The Psychology of Sex, 1931
Wile and Day Winn, Marriage in the Modern Manner, 1929
Winter, Der Mensch von Morgen, n.d.
Wright, Contraceptive Technique, 1951
Yarros, Modern Woman and Sex, 1933
The Third International Conference on Planned Parenthood: Report of the Proceedings, 1952
The Sixth International Conference on Planned Parenthood; Report of the Proceedings, 1959
Book written in Japanese (?)
Library of Congress catalogues
The Woman Rebel (reprint of originals in bound volume)
Sound recordings
[ORIGINALS restricted -- Use copies in box 110A and 111]
M. Sanger, "Family Planning," WABC New York, April 11, 1935 (2 records and 1 cassette tape)
Town Hall Award to Margaret Sanger, WQXR, January 15, 1937 (10 records and 1 cassette tape)
M. Sanger, "Why Birth Control Is Needed," studio recording, June 28, 1937 (3 records)
Dorothy Gordon and M. Sanger, tribute to Havelock Ellis, "Let's Talk It Over" (tribute to Havelock Ellis), WEAF, July 17, 1939 (2 records)
Fourth International Conference on Planned Parenthood, Stockholm, 1953 (3 cassette tapes)
M. Sanger and Leighton Rollins, "Portrait in Speech," October 1, 1958 (1 reel-to-reel tape)
Richard, Olive Byrne, interview by Jacqueline Van Voris, November 25, 1977 (master and research copy)
Ivins, Nancy Sanger and Margaret Sanger Marston, interview by Jacqueline Van Voris, 1977 (master and research copy)
Sanger, Grant, interview by Jacqueline Van Voris, March 28, 1977 (master and research copy)
Town Hall Award to Margaret Sanger, WQXR, January 15, 1937 (cassette tape, research copy)
M. Sanger, "Why Birth Control Is Needed," studio recording, June 28, 1937 and Dorothy Gordon and M. Sanger, tribute to Havelock Ellis, "Let's Talk It Over" (tribute to Havelock Ellis), WEAF, July 17, 1939 (cassette tape, research copy)
M. Sanger and Leighton Rollins, "Portrait in Speech," October 1, 1958 and M. Sanger, "Family Planning," WABC New York, April 11, 1935 (1 cassette tape, research copy)
Fourth International Conference on Planned Parenthood, Stockholm, 1953 (1 cassette, research copy)
Films and videotapes
[Originals and masters of audiovisual materials are closed. Use research copies]
"Margaret Sanger" narrated by K. Hepburn (1 film and 1 videotape)
Reed, Miriam, "Margaret Sanger: 1916" (one-woman show), Santa Barbara Planned Parenthood, 1993
"Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance" (produced by the Margaret Sanger Papers Project), 1992
"The Woman Rebel Margaret Sanger," WGBH, Boston (NOVA program #316), n.d.
"The Mike Wallace Interview" (Copyright: CBS News), September 24, 1957
"Margaret Sanger on Birth Control (Copyright: Fox Movietone News)," January 1928
Home movies (video compilation of 3 8mm films): 1) Slee family in Paris, circa 1932 (?); 2) J.N.H. Slee, Cape Cod, Dr. Pierson, Eliz. Newman and grandchildren of J.N.H. Slee; and 3) M. Sanger in Tucson at X-mas, Tennis, and Stuart, Grant, and Edwina Sanger
Photocopies
Please use these for research
Margaret (Higgins) Sanger--alone
See also SERIES X. OVERSIZE MATERIALS and APPENDIX: PHOTOGRAPHS LOCATED IN OTHER SERIES.
In nurse's uniform, ca. 1899-1902
Undated, pre-1900
Undated, ca. 1901-29
Undated, circa 1930-49
Undated, ca. 1950-66
Photographic reproductions of busts & paintings of Sanger
Family
Higgins
Anne (Purcell) Higgins (mother), 1850, n.d., and William Purcell, n.d.
Michael H. Higgins (father), 1925, n.d.
Anna (Nan) Higgins (sister), 1889-97, 1918, 1944, n.d.
Mary Higgins (sister), 1889-96, n.d.
[see also framed photo of Mary Higgins in SERIES X. OVERSIZE, box 130]
Richard Higgins (brother) and family, 1937-58, n.d.
Robert Higgins (brother) and family , 1918, 1932, 1941, 1948, n.d.
Thomas Higgins (brother), 1895
Groups, 1910, 1918, n.d.
Sanger
William Sanger (first husband), n.d.
Photographic reproductions of paintings by William Sanger, 1922, n.d.
William Sanger: Ancestors and relatives, including his parents, 1889-1945, n.d.
Alexander Sanger (grandson), n.d.
Grant Sanger (son), 1915-22, n.d.
Grant and Edwina Sanger family, 1937-56, n.d.
Grant and Edwina Sanger family with Margaret Sanger, 1943-56
Peggy Sanger (daughter), ca. 1912, 1915, n.d.
Stuart Sanger (son), 1924-33, n.d.
[see also photograph of Stuart and Yale class of 1928 in Flat file]
Stuart and Barbara Sanger family, 1940-65
Stuart and Barbara Sanger family with Margaret Sanger, circa 1941, 1948, n.d.
Family groups
Stuart, Grant and Peggy Sanger, pre-1920
Margaret and William Sanger with children, pre-1920
circa 1920-37
Slee
J. Noah H. Slee (second husband), ca. 1870s, 1922-40, n.d.
J. Noah H. Slee and Margaret Sanger, ca. 1920s, 1924-40, n.d.
[see also oversize photo of Margaret Sanger and J. Noah H. Slee in Potsdam in Flat file]
Slee grandchildren, including Margaret Sanger and J. Noah H. Slee,1928-47, n.d.
Dogs, n.d.
Friends and associates
Individuals (including Margaret Sanger with individuals)
Albertson, Corey, n.d.
Buck, Pearl, 1935
Comstock, Anthony, n.d.
Ellis, Havelock and Edith, 1918-27, n.d.
Gandhi, Mohandas K. and Indira, 1959, n.d.
Hastings, Daniel, n.d.
Kato, Shidzue (formerly the Baroness Ishimoto), 1922-59, n.d.
[see also Groups--Japan]
"Marharishi" (of India), n.d.
McCormick, Ada, n.d.
Merion, Kitty, 1925
Nehru, Jawaharlal (also Lady Rama Rau), 1959
Pandit, Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi, 1952
Pierce, Walter, 1934
Rose, Florence, 1957, 1960, ca. 1966
Selincourt, Hugh de, 1925, 1927, n.d.
Stone, Abraham, 1952, 1959, n.d.
Unidentified, 1942, 1945-48, n.d.
Groups--chronological (including Margaret Sanger)
(including Margaret Sanger & nursing class), Pre-1900
(including Otis Skinner, H.G. Wells), 1901-19
(including Dorothy Booker, Pearl Buck, Katharine (Houghton) Hepburn, Mrs. Philip Hughes, Anne Kennedy, John M. Keynes, Charles Scribner, Hugh de Selincourt), 1920-39
(including Florence Rose, Stuart Sanger), 1940-49
(including Dorothy Brush, Abraham Stone, Ellen Watumull), 1950-66
(including Dorothy Brush, Katharine (Houghton) Hepburn, Mary Hughston, Ada McCormick, Florence Rose, Hugh de Selincourt, H.G. Wells), Undated
Groups--activities (including Margaret Sanger)
Trial, 1916-17
Scenes from film "Birth Control," 1917
Sanger at Smith College receiving honorary degree, 1949
Shidzue Kato, Reiko Mitsui, Dorothy Brush, and others, 1922, 1932, 1937
Dorothy Brush, Shidzue Kato, Abraham Stone, and others, 1952, 1954
Dorothy Brush, Shidzue Kato, Governor of Tokyo, and the 6th International Conference on Planned Parenthood, 1958-59, n.d.
[see also photo album of Japan trip, 1959, in SERIES X. OVERSIZE]
India (including Dorothy Brush, Lady Rama Rau, Abraham Stone), 1952
Sites and scenes
Brownsville Clinic at 46 Amboy Street, 1916
Miscellaneous birth control related scenes, ca. 1889, 1912, n.d.
Sanger homes
Corning, NY (color slides), [1977?]
Hastings, NY house, n.d.
"Willowlake," Fishkill, NY
Construction, 1921-28, n.d.
Exterior, 1924, 1928, 1946, n.d.
Interior, n.d.
Surrounding scenery, n.d.
"Casa de Adobe," Tucson, AZ
Exterior and interior, 1937, n.d.
Sierra Vista Drive house, circa 1949, n.d.
Valley House (nursing home), Tucson, AZ, 1964
Miscellaneous and unidentified scenes, 1897-1948, n.d.
Color transparencies and reproductions of various pictures in Sanger Papers, circa 1898-1932, n.d.
Margaret Sanger Papers in the Sophia Smith Collection: images of the selected items and document boxes, 1966, n.d.
Biographical material
Personal records: Passport, 1915
Awards, honors, anniversaries, and honorary degrees
Honorary degree hoods: Smith College, 1949 and University of Arizona, 1965
World Tribute to Margaret Sanger, 1961: Guest book
Third Class of the Order of the Precious Crown, 1965: citation in Japanese
Family planning commemorative stamp, 1972
Poem re: M. Sanger by Desire Vail, n.d.
Drawing of M. Sanger's arrest by J. Downs, presented by Today's Health, n.d.
Embroidered hanging from India (unidentified), n.d.
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Award, 1950: Plaster relief of medal
Citation in Japanese, Tokyo, 1955
World Tribute to Margaret Sanger, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, NY, May 11-12, 1961, sponsored by the World Population Emergency Campaign: Letters and telegrams, A-Z (2 vols.)
and folder Artwork (mostly water colors by M. Sanger), n.d.
Drawings of Gandhi by Yuping Wong, 1931 and M. Sanger by Samuel Cahan, 1929
Bas-relief of M. Sanger as a nurse by Betty Barstow Long
"Men of Affairs," The Evening Mail (cartoons of prominent men, including J. Noah Slee, n.d.)
Organization and conference files
International Conference on Planned Parenthood, 6th, Delhi, 1959: Poster, 20 February 1959
International Planned Parenthood Federation, "Activities": [Educational materials?], n.d.
Maternity Center Association, New York: Maternity Care in Pictures, 1939
World Population Conference, 1927: Cartoon menu, "Vive le Bebe"; Journal, 2, 2 September 1927; and publications [in Danish?], "compliments of ---- Hansen"]
Countries and regions
Russia: Mother and Child, published by the Leningrad Branch of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the Leningrad Health Department, [circa 1930s]
Japan: Scrapbook of clippings (also on microfilm)
India and other countries: Scrapbook of clippings, 1935-36
Printed material
Birth Control News (London), 1922-29 (incomplete, 66 issues)
The Birth Control Herald (Voluntary Parenthood League), July 1922-March 1924
Lucifer the Light-Bearer
5 February 1886-28 August 1891
4 September 1891-25 December 1896
The Woman Rebel, May, January, September/October 1914
Mary Higgins (framed portrait)
Japan album, 1959
Portraits of M. Sanger
circa 1925-29
circa 1940s-50s
On shelf: wood boxes with Japanese characters (2)
Charcoal drawing of M. Sanger by Lisa Baskin for Margaret Sanger Centennial Conference
Photographs: M. Sanger with J. Noah Slee in Potsdam, circa 1927; Stuart Sanger with Yale class of 1928
Tucson Title Insurance co. map, n.d.
Chinese family planning posters (2)
Japanese poster
Poster, "Mrs. Sanger Defends Birth Control" (Morning Post, Hong Kong), n.d.