Promotional Booklet for the Margaret Sanger Bureau

New York, New York: Birth Control Federation of American, Inc, 1941. Very good. Light toning, extremities rubbed.. A scarce 1940s promotional booklet for the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, the first birth control research bureau in the United States founded by the birth control activist and feminist educator Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) in 1923. The booklet begins with an emotional appeal to readers, describing a scene in which a young Sanger was unable to help her patient in childbirth early in her career as a nurse, and realized: "Something must be done about the needless, tragic waste of human life in childbirth". Readers are then shown the progress made in the past two decades towards making family planning accessible to all women and families. It gives a brief overview of the Bureau's services and activities, highlighting its twelve doctors on staff (all women), opening hours, counseling and clinical services offered. It operates on a policy that "no married women, with a health reason, who seeks the Bureau's aid shall be turned away unhelped. The Bureau serves both indigent mothers and those able to pay a moderate fee for the service rendered". An important relic of the early days of the modern birth control movement in America. Single vol. (6.25" by 3.25"), pp. [12], illus., in original illus. wrps with a striking photo of a woman in shadow entering the organization's famous premises on 17 West 16th Street in Manhattan.