Dorothy Hamilton Brush Papers 1840-1969 1936-1968

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Dorothy Hamilton Brush Papers 1840-1969 1936-1968

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss187.html

Birth control advocate, Women's rights advocate, Author. The bulk of the papers focus on Brush's work with Margaret Sanger and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The collection includes first-hand accounts of Margaret Sanger's work; research and writings on Japanese women; research, questionnaires, and manuscript for her book on menopause; and reports, correspondence and photographs on the birth control missionary work of Sanger and Brush in various countries. Correspondents include C.P. Blacker, Barbara and George Cadbury, Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, Margaret Grierson, Vera Houghton, Shidzue Ishimoto Kato, Edris Rice-Wray, Margaret Sanger, and Ellen Watamull. The Dorothy Hamilton Brush Papers are closely related to the . Margaret Sanger Papers

12 boxes; (5 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6322789

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66b7wgt (person)

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 ...

Sophia Smith Collection. Smith College

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xb0v2w (corporateBody)

Grierson, Margaret Storrs

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pb0nc8 (person)

Gamble, Clarence James, 1894-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6br9bbj (person)

Gamble (1894-1966) (Harvard, M.D. 1920) became involved in the birth control movement in 1929 when he helped to establish the Maternal Health Clinic and Committee in Cincinnati and became associated with a Philadelphia clinic. In 1933 he chaired the board of Philadelphia Maternal Health Centers, and began a term as president of the Pennsylvania Birth Control Federation. He later served in an executive capacity with the Birth Control Federation and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. He pro...

Katō, Shizue, 1897-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j1130r (person)

Brush, Dorothy Hamilton, 1894-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k65jb5 (person)

Birth control advocate; Women's rights advocate; Author. Dorothy Hamilton Brush (1894-1968) began working with Margaret Sanger as a volunteer at her clinic in the 1930s. Brush joined Sanger as a birth control missionary to Europe and the Far East. She helped found International Planned Parenthood Federation and started and edited its first newsletter. She researched and wrote on birth control, sex education, Margaret Sanger and her work, Japanese women, and menopause. Brush was married 3 times t...

International Planned Parenthood Federation.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n5zpr (corporateBody)