About a dozen items.
Early Birth Control Material
including several editions of Family Limitation
and an archive from the Voluntary Parenthood League of New York
1. [Birth Control] Sanger: Family Limitation. Various languages and editions.
English: Family Limitation.
Revised. Fifth edition. 12mo.; printed wrappers; stapled; 16 pp.; stamped on the final page, “Sophia Smith Collection.”
Lithuanian: A szulesek korlatozasa.
Hungarian: Seimynos Aprybavimas. (2 copies - see #4658829 a & b)
2. Voluntary Parenthood League
a. (Stopes, Marie C., speaker.) Voluntary Parenthood League. Verbatim Report of the Town Hall Meeting under the auspices of the Voluntary Parenthood League at which the chief speaker was Dr. Marie C. Stopes, of London, President of the Society of Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress. October 27, 1921. New York: Voluntary Parenthood League, 1921. This copy stamped with the name and address of the Voluntary Parenthood League, 19 West 44th St., New York City. Pamphlet.
b. “Yes,--But isn’t self-control better than birth control?” Prof. William Pepperell Montague Answer this question with candor. Leaflet. N.d.
c. The Laws Against Contraceptive Knowledge. Just what they prohibit and how and where and the V.P.L. program for changing them. Large broadside, both sides printed. N.d.
d. Two Facts. Broadside. N.d.
e. Mander, Jane. Birth Control in New Zealand. Pamphlet. This copy stamped with the name and address of the Voluntary Parenthood League, 19 West 44th St., New York City. N.d.
f. Yes, But - This copy stamped The Birth Control Review, Room 2004 – 104 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Annotated in pencil, “Voluntary Parenthood League. Small pamphlet, 24 pp., printed wrappers. N.d.
g. A Friendly Word With Catholics Concerning Birth Control. Leaflet. This copy stamped with the name and address of the Voluntary Parenthood League, 19 West 44th St., New York City. N.d.
h. McDonnell, Eleanor Kinsella. Keeping the Stork in His Place. The address of the VPL printed on this item is 51 East 59th Street. Slim 8vo.; printed wrappers, stapled; 8 pp. N.d.
3. The Birth Control Movement in England. London: John Bale…., 1930. 12mo.; orange printed wrappers. Docketed in ink on the upper panel, “Birth Control International Information Centre.”
4. Birth Control. Plain Medical Information. Revised edition. London: Medical Bureaus of Information on Birth Control, (1931). Slim 18mo.; photographically illustrated printed wrappers; stapled.
5. Schwangerschafts-verhutung. Nurnberg: 1932. Slim 8vo; printed wrappers.
6. The Japan’s Planned Parenthood. Tokyo: The Japan Birth-Control Institute, 6.2-3 (April-September 1955). Slim 8vo.; printed wrappers.
7. Birth Control. Pamphlet in Chinese.
8. Sex Education Centre Programme. Leaflet. N.d.
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