Personal and Professional Papers, 1916-1959.

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Personal and Professional Papers, 1916-1959.

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Primarily consists of colleague and patient correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, publications, data, and photographs resulting from Stone's administrative activities as Director and Medical Director of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in New York City from 1941 to 1959; and writings, notes, reports, meeting minutes, administrative files, correspondence, and photographs from Stone's service as an advocate for the development of international family planning programs as vice-president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Also includes correspondence, pamphlets, and reports from the selection of Puerto Rico as a closed environment to test the birth control pill in the 1950s. Contains Stone's reports and correspondence with the World Health Organization as a consultant for family planning programs in India and Stone's lecture notes, correspondence, and memoranda from his service as president of the American Association of Marriage Counselors. Also includes family planning correspondence with Robert Latou Dickinson and Edris Rice-Wray; manuscripts, drafts, and revisions of A Marriage Manual; Stone's personal correspondence, including his correspondence with Margaret Sanger; teaching records from the New School for Social Research, writings by his wife, family planning advocate Hannah Stone; and lantern slides of family planning advocates and educators.

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

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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