Guttmacher, Alan Frank papers, 1860s, 1898-1974. H MS c155

Guttmacher, Alan Frank papers, 1860s, 1898-1974. H MS c155

Alan Frank Guttmacher, (1898-1974), was President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1962 to 1974. His research focused on women's reproductive health issues including family planning, birth control, legalized abortion, sterility, fertility, multiple birth pregnancies, and global overpopulation. Guttmacher was an obstetrician, gynecologist, and family planning advocate in Baltimore, Md. before becoming Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in 1952. Guttmacher was Medical Director of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in New York and Chairman of the Planned Parenthood Medical Committee before assuming the presidency of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1962.

Collection consists of colleague and patient correspondence, meeting minutes, notes, writings, publications, data, and photographs resulting from Guttmacher's administrative and personal activities as President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1962 to 1974. Includes writings, notes, reports, meeting minutes, travel diaries, itineraries, and photographs from Guttmacher's work as an advocate for the development of international family planning programs and his efforts to foster a stronger relationship between the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Also contains Guttmacher's personal correspondence, operating journals as a resident at Johns Hopkins University, writings by his wife, Leonore Guttmacher; his memoir manuscripts, and family photographs, including several photographs of his twin brother psychiatrist Manfred Guttmacher.