Accession Number: 53
Mountain Maternal Health League Records, 1936-1997
Bulk Dates: 1937-1990s
4.4 linear ft.
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview
History
Series I - History
Series II - Clinical and Medical
Series III - Administrative and Financial Records
Series IV - Clinical and Medical
Series V - Publicity and Fundraising
Series VI - Correspondence, 1937-1979
Series VII - Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Series VIII - Artifacts
Series IX - Restricted Correspondence

Access and Use:

Preferred citation: Mountain Maternal Health League Records, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, Ky.

Related Archives:

Louise Hutchins, RG 3
Frontier Nursing Service Collection, 1911-1976, SAA 14
Jane Pearson, RG 9

14 Manuscript Boxes

This series consists of Medical Advisory Committee minutes, monthly clinic activity reports, clinic test procedures, and reports of clinic evaluations by outside agencies.

Box 5 continued

5. Birth Control Distribution
6. Clinic Evaluations: Miscellaneous (I)
7. Clinic Evaluations: Miscellaneous (II)
8. Clinic Evaluations: Patients
9. Clinic Evaluations: Planned Parenthood
10. Clinic Policy
11. Clinic Report Sheets
12. Examination Forms
13. Laboratory Testing Guide

Box 6

1. Minutes: Medical Committee: [1938] & 1970's
2. Minutes: Medical Committee: 1980-85
3. Minutes: Medical Committee: 1986-89
4. Minutes: Medical Committee: 1990's
5. Monthly Clinic Reports
6. Referral Lists
7. Standing Orders
8. Sexually Transmitted Disease Statistics

This series consists mainly of newspaper clippings and other published writings relating to both the League and women's health issues generally. Also included are birth control education publications, materials relating to fund-raising through both charitable donations and government funded health programs.

Box 6 continued

9. Articles
10. Articles
11. Awards
12. Birth Control Information
13. Childbirth Preparation Information
14. Clippings: n.d. & 1930s-1940s
15. Clippings: 1960s-1970s
16. Clippings: 1980s
17. E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund

Box 7

1. Fundraising: n.d.
2. Fundraising: 1939-1970
3. Fundraising: 1970-1990s
4. List of Contributors
5. Lobbying
6. Marriage Manual
7. Marriage Manual
8. Newsletters
9. Pamphlets
10. Pamphlet Prices & Layout
11. Photographs
12. Programs & Workshops
13. Publicity-50th Anniversary Dinner
14. Publicity-Pathfinder Fund
15. Public Affairs

Box 8

1. Title X / Title XX
2. United Way (I)
3. United Way (II)

This series consists of the correspondence of such League workers, as Louise Hutchins, M.D.; Gretchen James, R.N.; Dr. Clarence J. Gamble; and A.S. Holmes, M.D., as well as general correspondence between the League and a wide variety of institutions and persons. Included here is general correspondence between the League and birth control product manufacturers along with manufacturers' product updates. Boxes 13-14 contains restricted correspondence relating to individual clinic patients and personnel matters.

Box 8 continued

4. A-B , 1937-1963
5. American Birth Control League, 1937-1938
6. Birth Control Federation of America, 1939-1940
7. Board Members, 1973-1976
8. C-D, 1936-1962
9. F-H, 1938-1981
10. Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, 1937-1942
11. Lena & Sylvia Gilliam, 1936-1940
12. Mrs. E.M. Hoffman, 1937-1938
13. A.S. Holmes, M.D., 1966-1974
14. L.G. Hutchins, M.D., 1961-1972
15. Gretchen James, R.N., 1947-1949
16. Johnson & Johnson, 1937-1938
17. Journal of Contraception, 1936-1938
18. K, 1941-1948
19. Judy Keith, 1970-1976

Box 9

1. Kentucky Birth Control League, 1937-1940
2. Lexington Maternal Health Center, 1946-1947
3. M-R, 1937-1966
4. Mead-Johnson, 1962-1965 (also research information)
5. Mead-Johnson, 1966-1970 (also research information)
6. Evelyn Mottram, 1953-1957
7. National Committee on Maternal Health, 1936-1941
8. Mrs. Waldemar [Nell Scoville] Noll, 1939-1940
9. Ortho Research Foundation, 1963-1967 (also research info)
10. Planned Parenthood
11. Product Companies, 1937-1968
12. William H. Suters, 1965-1974
13. S-Z, 1938-1967
14. WEDCO District Health Department

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