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For the cover of the November issue in 1923, The Birth Control Review used a drawing of a woman in distress laying on her side. Chained to her ankle is a weighted ball that says "unwanted children." At this time, The Birth Control Review was still…

This image was taken after five women were arrested during a raid of the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau.

Before creating her own publication, Josephine Lewis Skeehan made contact with the American Birth Control League. This letter is addressed to Mrs. Morton Keeney, one of the vice presidents of the ABCL at that time. The top margin contains…

This magazine consists of controversial advertising, letters to the editor, and other articles on the subject of birth control in the 1930s. The medical ads included in file images depict material considered "obscene" by laws at that time.

In a New York Times ad, Josephine Lewis Skeehan seeks funding to aid her magazine. Weeks later, another ad is placed that says the luncheon has been canceled. This is the beginnings of what would become the Birth Control Outlook (published 4 years…

A page from the first issue of "The Woman Rebel" documenting the aims of the magazine. This publication was created by Margaret Sanger and precedes "The Birth Control Review."

This returned envelope documents the attempt of lawyers assisting the American Birth Control League in pursuing legal action against an offending publication: "The Birth Control Outlook."

TRANSCRIPTION OF ENVELOPE MARKINGS AND…

This is the first issue of Margaret Sanger's publication The Birth Control Review.

A letter from Stella Hanau, Publications Director of the American Birth Control League, details the scandal of the illegitimate publication known as "The Birth Control Outlook." She writes to a law firm in New York City (Greenbaum, Wolff, and Ernst)…