American Birth Control League records, 1917-1934.

Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

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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 ...

Hamilton, Alice

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Following is a chronology of AH's life and work. For further information, see Notable American Women: The Modern Period and AH's autobiography , Exploring the Dangerous Trades (Boston: Little, Brown, 1942). See also Hamilton family papers (MC 278), available on microfilm (M-24). 1869 1886 -born in New York city; raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana ...

Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963

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Doris Stevens was born Dora Caroline Stevens on October 26, 1888, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Henry Henderbourck Stevens (1859-1930) and Caroline D. Koopman Stevens (1863-1932). Doris had an older sister, Alice Stevens Burns (1885-1954), and two younger brothers, Harry E. Stevens (ca.1892-1943) and Ralph G. Stevens (1895-1968). In December 1921, she married lawyer Dudley Field Malone (1882-1950), keeping her name. She filed for divorce in 1927; it was granted in 1929. In 1935, Stevens married journal...

Pusey, William Allen, 1865-1940

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Cox, Harold

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Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000680.0x00020b Epithet: Secretary, Cobden Club British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000680.0x00020d Epithet: MP, Editor `Edinburgh Review' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0001b8 ...

Haire, Norman, 1892-1952

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Vickery, Alice

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Bocker, Dorothy

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Cooper, James F. (James Fryer), 1880-1931

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Smith, Bertha Potter.

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Clinical Research Bureau.

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Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946

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Margarete Hauptmann was the second wife of Gerhart Hauptmann; they married in 1904. Maxa Mück was a friend of Margarete Hauptmann's. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, ca. 1911-1952. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863425 Author. From the description of Letter of Gerhart Hauptmann, 1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450807 ...

Boyd, Mary Brown Sumner.

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Knopf, S. Adolphus (Sigard Adolphus), 1857-1940

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S. Adolphus Knopf (1857-1940) was a pioneer in the campaign for research and treatment of tuberculosis, and spent his entire career combating the disease. His landmark work Pulmonary tuberculosis: its modern prophylaxis and the treatment in special institutions and at home, was the first text book of its kind to appear in English, and won the Alvarenga Prize of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1899. His article "Tuberculosis as a disease of the masses and how to combat it," received ...

Abe, Isoo, 1865-1949

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Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948

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Schwimmer was a Jewish pacifist and writer, born in Hungary. Her application for American citizenship was denied by the Supreme Court in 1929 on the grounds of her pacifist views. Justice Holmes wrote the dissenting opinion. (United States v. Schwimmer; 49 S. Ct. 448) From the description of Correspondence between Rosika Schwimmer and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1930-1935. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235152187 Public official. From the descr...

Meyer, Adolf, 1866-1950

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Psychiatrist. From the description of Adolf Meyer correspondence, 1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984638 Docent of psychiatry at Clark University. From the description of Scientific papers / Aolf Meyer. (Clark University). WorldCat record id: 224040269 ...

Manes, Georg, Dr.

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Grew, Elizabeth.

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Marion, Kitty, 1871-1944

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Kitty Marion (1871-1944), born Katharina Schafer in Germany, was an actress and activist in the British suffragette and American birth control movements. She died a naturalized U.S. citizen in New York City. From the description of Kitty Marion papers, 1908-1939, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79427327 Suffragist. From the description of Memorial of Kitty Marion, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454124 Kitty Mar...

Kennedy, Anne (Anne Maria), 1959-

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Lifshiz, Anna.

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Potter, Charles Francis, 1885-1962

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Leonard, Martha

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Goldstein, Ferdinand

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Russell, Dora, 1894-1986

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Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

Dublin, Louis I. (Louis Israel), 1882-1969

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Dr. Dublin, vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was with that institution from 1909-1952. His analytic studies on birth rates, vital statistics trends, suicide, accident rates, mortality rates of whites and African-Americans, and the increasing population of aged Americans raised awareness of the implications these areas had on national medical care, including prevention and costs. He was president, or director, of various public health institutions, inclu...

Cooper, James F. (James Fryer), 1880-1931

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Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940

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Professor of biology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. From the description of Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 645650881 Raymond Pearl was a biologist and statistician. He spent most of his academic career (1918-1940) at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was Professor of Biometry and Vital Statistics and Director of the Institute of Biological Research. He was founder of...

Ferch, Johann, 1879-1954

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Epithet: of Vienna British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x000334 ...

Daniel, Pauline Carvel.

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Pokrass, Mary.

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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

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British essayist, editor physician and psychologist. He studied human sexual behavior and his research for Man and Women (1894) led to his major work, the seven volume, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1928). His last writings were the essays on literature and art reprinted in Views and Reviews (1932). From the description of Havelock Ellis papers, 1871-1939 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166017 From the guide to the Havelock Ellis papers, 1871-1939, (M...

Jones, Eleanor Dwight.

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Jensen, Thit, 1876-1957

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Cooper, James F. (James Fryer), 1880-1931

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Dallas, Tex.

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Schlapp, Max Gustav, 1869-1928

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Neurologist and educator. From the description of The new criminology; a consideration of the chemical causation of abnormal behavior : manuscript, 1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83065539 ...

Haskovec, Ladislas.

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Sumner, Francis B. (Francis Bertody), 1874-1945

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Dunlop, Binnie, Dr.

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Rowe, Clara Louise.

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Møller, Katti Anker, 1868-1945

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Epithet: of Fredriksstad Norway British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x0002d4 ...

Levine, Sara

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Albert, Ruth

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American Birth Control League

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American Birth Control League (ABCL) was an organization founded in New York City in 1921 by birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger (1879-1966). It was a national voluntary organization to promote birth control via public education, legislative reform, medical contraceptive research, and provision of services. Affiliated units were: Birth Control Review, Clinical Research Bureau, American Birth Control League Congressional Committee, American Birth Control League Speaker's Bureau, American Birth ...