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Birth Control Digital Collection

Featuring materials by feminist Margaret Sanger, the collection focuses on the roots of the movement in the 1920s. Inspired by her experiences as a nurse in New York's poverty-ridden Lower East Side, Sanger resisted frequent legal harassment to become one of the first advocates of birth control.

Items in the Birth Control collection:
Thumbnail Image Title Publisher Author Call Number Description Available Format(s)
Sample image of Debate on Birth Control
Debate on Birth Control
Girard, Kan.: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1921
Sanger, Margaret
unknown or unavailable
Sample image of Family Limitations
Family Limitations
New York?: S. Maisel?, 1917
Sanger, Margaret
unknown or unavailable
Sample image of What Every Girl Should Know (1920)
What Every Girl Should Know (1920)
Springfield, Ill.: United Sales Co., 1920
Sanger, Margaret
unknown or unavailable
Sample image of What Every Girl Should Know (1922 or 1923)
What Every Girl Should Know (1922 or 1923)
Girard, Kan.: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1922 or 1923
Sanger, Margaret
unknown or unavailable
Sample image of What Every Mother Should Know, or, How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth
What Every Mother Should Know, or, How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth
New York: Truth Publishing, 1921
Sanger, Margaret
unknown or unavailable