Papers, 1916-1959. 1916-1959 (Inclusive), 1951-1959 (Bulk)

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Papers, 1916-1959. 1916-1959 (Inclusive), 1951-1959 (Bulk)

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The Abraham Stone Papers, 1916-1959 are the product of Stone's activities as Medical Director and later Director of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in New York City and as an administrator at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the International Planned Parenthood Federation from the 1940s until his death in 1959. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, teaching notes, lecture notes, and writings resulting from his administrative activities at the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau. The collection also includes writings and lectures produced by his wife, Hannah Stone, while she served as Medical Director of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau.

13.5 cubic feet in 12 record cartons, 1 half record carton, 2 legal document boxes, 1 photograph box.

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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 ...

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Planned parenthood federation of America

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Dickinson, Robert L

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World Health Organization . Country Office in Pakistan

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International Planned Parenthood Federation.

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Human Fertility

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Levine, Lena

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Stone, Hannah M. (Hannah Mayer), 1894-1941

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New School for Social Research.

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Community Church

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Stone, Abraham and three unidentified men and an unidentified woman

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Hannah Stone

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Dickinson, Robert L

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Margaret Sanger Research Bureau

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The Margaret Sanger Research Bureau (MSRB) began as the Clinical Research Bureau in 1923, operating under the direction of the American Birth Control League (ABCL). In 1928, Sanger resigned as president of the ABCL and assumed full control of the clinic, renaming it the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB). The BCCRB reunited with the ABCL in a 1939 merger that created the Birth Control Federation of America (renamed Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) in 1942), but the cli...

Edris Rice-Wray

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Community Church of New York.

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Planned Parenthood

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Dickinson, Robert Latou, 1861-1950

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Robert Latou Dickinson, 1861-1950, MD, 1882, Long Island College Hospital, was a gynecologist and obstetrician at Brooklyn Hospital and also taught at Long Island College Hospital. Dickinson served as secretary to the National Committee on Maternal Health, senior vice-president of Planned Parenthood Federation, president of the Euthanasia Society, and was president of the American Gynecological Society and New York Obstetrical Society. In addition to research on obstetrics and diseases of women,...

American Association of Marriage Counselors

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Stone, Abraham, 1890-1959

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Abraham Stone (1890-1959), was Medical Director and later Director of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in New York City from 1941 to 1959. His research focused on marriage counseling and reproductive health issues including family planning, birth control, sterility, fertility, sexual relations, and global overpopulation. Stone was an urologist in private practice with his wife Hannah in New York City before becoming Medical Director at the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, succeeding his wife ...