Paul Bowman Popenoe papers 1874-1991

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Paul Bowman Popenoe papers 1874-1991

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The collection contains case files and correspondence regarding the American Institute of Family Relations, which Paul Bowman Popenoe founded in 1929. Also included are printed columns; scripts from radio and television programs; and manuscripts of and articles authored by this prolific writer whose interests included biology, eugenics, heredity, social hygiene, family relations, marriage counseling, and sex education in schools.

85 cubic ft. (189 document boxes)

eng,

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Popenoe, Paul, 1888-1979

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Paul Bowman Popenoe was born in 1888. He was an author, lecturer, and research worker in biology, eugenics, heredity, social hygiene, and family relations. He attended Occidental College from 1905 until 1907. He transferred to Stanford University in 1907 for his junior year but had to leave school to care for his father and run the family business - a fruit farm in the Coachella Valley, California. In 1911, on behalf of his father he traveled through the Middle East, South Africa, India, and Eur...