Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

Shelburne Studios

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Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

Margaret Sanger was an advocate for the legal distribution of birth control in the United States from the 1920s until her death in 1966. Sanger worked closely with Hannah Stone and later Abraham Stone at the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in New York City. The Bureau, originally founded by Sanger as the Birth Control Clinical Research Center in 1923, was renamed in her honor in 1942.

Photograph of Margaret Sanger, founder of the Birth Control Clinical Research Center

Shelburne Studios

1947 January

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Abraham Stone papers, 1916-1959. H MS c157. Box 12, folder 67. Image No. MSc157.002, Location: S030.30.

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The Abraham Stone Papers were donated to the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine in 1971 by Gloria Aitken, daughter of Abraham Stone.