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Leaflet to accompany an exhibition of books, pamphlets and ephemera from the Wellcome Library's modern collections at 183 Euston Road, London. Printed in black on pale grey paper. It was also issued on green paper. The contents of the exhibition ranged from Marie Stope's 'Married Love' to the recently marketed Femidom.

Wellcome Collection Ephemera. Box 2

1 folded sheet (6 pages) : illustrations, plan ; 21 cm

The shadow of the stork : birth control in the 20th century [grey] : 29th September to 23rd December 1997 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / [Stephen Lowther].

97 pages, 36 unnumbered pages, vii leaves : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 30 cm

The dwindling family : an assessment of working-class life in Britain in the 1920's with reference to letters sent to Marie Stopes in response to articles on birth control in John Bull / Evelyn Faulkner.

From The authorized life of Marie C. Stopes by Aylmer Maude, published by Williams & Norgate ltd., London 1924.

Marie Stopes at the time of the marriage with Mr. H.V. Roe.

351 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 14 cm

Marie Stopes, a biography / Ruth Hall.

A comparison of the birth control measures taken by the Anglican clergy and doctors, as shown by Dr Marie C. Stopes' Birth Control Questionnaire, 1920-1922 / Jeffrey A.J. Phillips.

521 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

The morbid age : Britain between the wars / by R.J. Overy.

48 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm

Le Brasseur's revised list of medical goods 1925 : catalogue "C" / Le Brasseur Surgical Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes leaflets, Post office stamp postcards, Liebig cards, bank notes, gummed sticker / stamps, Brooke Bond tea cards, newspaper clippings etc. The people represented are: Eleanor Rathbone, Wilhelm Röntgen, Rudolphus, Ernest Rutherford, Sir Martin Ryle, Mary Seacole, Nicholas Shackleton, Erik Skovenborg, Marie Stopes, Sir Henry Thompson, Queen Victoria (visiting the sick at Osborne), Louis Wain, Alfred Russel Wallace, James D. Watson, Mary Wollstonecraft (2009 UK postage stamp and Newington Green Action Group's memorial project, 2011).

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Biography ephemera. Box 3, R-Z.

Publisher's publicity leaflet advertising the 3rd edition of Marie Stopes' 'Contraception' (1931). Includes a list of contents, details of the revisions and an order form.

Contraception (birth control) : its theory, history and practice : a manual for the medical and legal professions : by Marie Carmichael Stopes ... third edition, revised and enlarged.

14 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm

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The shadow of the stork : birth control in the 20th century [grey] : 29th September to 23rd December 1997 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / [Stephen Lowther].

The dwindling family : an assessment of working-class life in Britain in the 1920's with reference to letters sent to Marie Stopes in response to articles on birth control in John Bull / Evelyn Faulkner.

Marie Stopes at the time of the marriage with Mr. H.V. Roe.

Marie Stopes, a biography / Ruth Hall.

A comparison of the birth control measures taken by the Anglican clergy and doctors, as shown by Dr Marie C. Stopes' Birth Control Questionnaire, 1920-1922 / Jeffrey A.J. Phillips.

The morbid age : Britain between the wars / by R.J. Overy.

Le Brasseur's revised list of medical goods 1925 : catalogue "C" / Le Brasseur Surgical Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Biography ephemera. Box 3, R-Z.

Contraception (birth control) : its theory, history and practice : a manual for the medical and legal professions : by Marie Carmichael Stopes ... third edition, revised and enlarged.

The secret life of Marie Stopes : an edited transcript / [edited by Paula Snyder].

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The shadow of the stork : birth control in the 20th century [grey] : 29th September to 23rd December 1997 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / [Stephen Lowther].

The dwindling family : an assessment of working-class life in Britain in the 1920's with reference to letters sent to Marie Stopes in response to articles on birth control in John Bull / Evelyn Faulkner.

Marie Stopes at the time of the marriage with Mr. H.V. Roe.

Marie Stopes, a biography / Ruth Hall.

A comparison of the birth control measures taken by the Anglican clergy and doctors, as shown by Dr Marie C. Stopes' Birth Control Questionnaire, 1920-1922 / Jeffrey A.J. Phillips.

The morbid age : Britain between the wars / by R.J. Overy.

Le Brasseur's revised list of medical goods 1925 : catalogue "C" / Le Brasseur Surgical Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Biography ephemera. Box 3, R-Z.

Contraception (birth control) : its theory, history and practice : a manual for the medical and legal professions : by Marie Carmichael Stopes ... third edition, revised and enlarged.

The secret life of Marie Stopes : an edited transcript / [edited by Paula Snyder].

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