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#6 : Contraceptive price list for doctors.
Two versions of a list of prices for various contraceptives including diaphragms, pessaries, jelly and condoms with the Parents' Information Bureau office in Kitchener listed as address for placing orders. One has the no header and the other includes PIB letterhead, with a note referring to the Bureau's interest in contraception as "philanthropic and not commercial."
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#7a : Second questionnaire re disposition of vasectomy.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#14 : Instructions and illustrations for the use of contraceptives.
Informational pamphlet with detailed illustrations of the the correct way to use contraceptive jelly and a pessary.
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#15 : Letter in reply to inquiry re vasectomy.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#20 : An alternative to female sterilization.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#44 : Doctor's request form for Lippes Loop.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#46 : Sterilization advocated by Magone Commission.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy).
Parents' Information Bureau
# 54 : Contraceptive price list for "properly recommended people".
Two price lists, one English, one French.
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#57 : Extract from address given by Dr. H.B. Attlee [missing].
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Parents' Information Bureau literature : list.
One ts. list of inventory of Parents Information Bureau printed items. Many numbers lacking.
Parents' Information Bureau
#11 : Request and consent forms, male and female.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead. Includes variant forms numbered 11A, 11B, 11C.
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#16 : Application and history card.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
[5] p. pamphlet issued by the Parents' Information Bureau, Kitchener, Ont.
Parents' Information Bureau
#21 : Re legality of sterilization.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead, "signed" by A.R. Kaufman.
Parents' Information Bureau
#25 : Letter to Doctor referring patient for vasectomy, with pre-op instructions.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#38 : Instructions for use of condom and jelly.
One form: 1 leaf.
Parents' Information Bureau
#51 : Doctor Lippes Loop folder.
One leaflet issued by the Parents' Information Bureau.
Parents' Information Bureau
#57 : Extract from address given by Dr. H.B. Attlee at Ottawa, June 25th, 1937.
One form (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau
#5 : General information on sterilization.
Document with numbered list titled General information on sterilization. Possibly intended to be printed on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#5 : Planned Parenthood progress in Canada / A.R. Kaufman.
1 leaf (photocopy) Parents' Information Bureau letterhead. One of two items labelled "#5".
Parents' Information Bureau
#7 : Confirmation of completed vasectomy to be retained by patient.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#17 : Letter to patient : referral for vasectomy, out of town.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#22 : Letter giving vasectomy appointments with local doctor.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#31 : Letter to patient after registration.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#37 : Instructions for use of pessary and jelly.
One form: 1 leaf.
Parents' Information Bureau
# 46 : Sterilization advocated by Magone Commission [missing].
Parents' Information Bureau
# 60 : The hand that rocks the cradle from May 1943 issue of New Generation.
One leaf ts. photocopy.
Parents' Information Bureau
#10 : Vasectomy : sterilization of the male.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#12 : Dominion criminal code, section 207.
1 leaf (photocopy).
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#18 : Letter to patient after request for birth control information.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#23 : Letter confirming vasectomy appointments with local doctor.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#39 : Letter to Doctor A. B. C. D.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#43 : Letter to enquiring doctors re Lippes Loop.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#61 : Simon was a simple soul : [poem].
One leaf (photocopy)
Parents' Information Bureau
Transcript of an address, 5 l. (photocopy), on Parents' Information Bureau letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
Welfare families and family allowance in Canada.
Photocopy of untitled, unattributed typed document regarding welfare families and family allowance in Canada.
Parents' Information Bureau
Elkhart General Hospital Training school : nurses in parade.
One photograph of nurses dressed in white uniforms marching in a parade along a cobblestone city street. An Elkhart General Hospital Training School banner is being carried by nurses near the back of the group.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau : Photographs
Series consists of three photographs: one image of the exterior of the Eastview Town Hall where the trial of Dorothea Palmer took place, one portrait of F.W. Wegenast who defended Dorothea Palmer in the Eastview trial, and one image of nurses marching in a parade.
Parents' Information Bureau
Head and shoulders portrait of F.W. Wegenast, the lawyer hired by A.R. Kaufman's to defend Dorothea Palmer during the Eastview Birth Control Trial.
Parents' Information Bureau
# 48 : Utopia by sterilization / by H.L. Mencken.
Ts. transcription of an article that appeared in the American Mercury (Aug. 1937), five leaves (photocopy)
Parents' Information Bureau
The future of the race : a series of radio addresses.
One 38 p. pamphlet with texts of radio addresses, sponsored by the Eugenics Society of Canada.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau fonds.
Fonds consists of publications and ephemera issued by the Parents' Information Bureau, correspondence, biographical and autobiographical material about A.R. Kaufman in the form of clippings, reminsiscences, interviews, speeches, etc.
Parents' Information Bureau
#13 : General procedure and technique of the diaphragm pessary.
Information leaflet issued by the Parents' Information Bureau, Kitchener, Ont. regarding the use of a diaphragm as a contraception method.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. fonds : accrual 2005.
Accrual consists of material belonging to A.R. Kaufman relating to the incorporation and operation of the Parents' Information Bureau in Kitchener, 1935 to 1976. Includes letters patent, financial and accounting records, publications issued by the Bureau, photographs and clippings.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau : Financial Records
Series consists of material relating to accounting and financial affairs of the Parents' Information Bureau, Ltd. in Kitchener, Ontario. Includes accounting records, shre certificates, tax returns and year end files. Includes information about the Toronto Clinic as well.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. : financial records.
Accounting records for the Parents' Information Bureau, Ltd. in Kitchener, Ontario. Includes information about the Toronto Clinic as well.
Parents' Information Bureau
Contains completed federal and provincial income tax forms. Some include attached correspondence, financial statements, statements of payments made to workers and doctors.
Parents' Information Bureau
Contains completed federal and provincial income tax forms. Some include attached correspondence, financial statements, statements of payments made to workers and doctors.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau : literature : numbered.
Series consists of numbered publications and printed material issued by the Parents' Information Bureau between 1936 and the 1970's.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau : Literature : Unnumbered
Series consists of material copied for distribution by the Parents' Information Bureau. Includes reports written by A.R. Kaufman, news stories, editorials and clippings.
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#3 : A brief for the sterilization of the feeble-minded
Informational pamphlet titled A brief for the sterilization of the feeble-minded by Dr. William L. Hutton, Medical Officer of Health, Brantford, Ontario, prepared at the request of the Association of Ontario Mayors at their annual conference, Orillia, June 1936.
Parents' Information Bureau
Newspaper story clipped from the Waterloo Chronicle, Dec. 1936
Parents' Information Bureau
One image of the exterior of the Eastview Town Hall where the trial of Dorothea Palmer took place. On the front of the photograph is an ms. note: "So this is 'Eastview'".
Parents' Information Bureau
#1 : Report on birth control activities and procedure / by A.R. Kaufman, Dec. 1, 1937.
Two reports, one published Dec. 1, 1937, the other ca 1960.
Parents' Information Bureau
# 2 : Birth control notes / Parents' Information Bureau.
Informational pamphlet regarding birth control. Includes opinions about the topic from officials in Canada and abroad.
Parents' Information Bureau
A leaflet titled Human sterilization today by the Human Betterment Foundation, Pasadena, California and a document with a number list condensing the key points from the publication produced by the Parents' Information Bureau.
Parents' Information Bureau
Newspaper story from the Catholic Register, edited by H. Somerville, with title "A report on Devilry".
Parents' Information Bureau
26 p. pamphlet issued by the Parents' Information Bureau, Kitchener, Ont., reporting on the trial of Dorothea Palmer.
Parents' Information Bureau
Informational pamphlet regarding sterilization. Includes opinions about the topic from officials in Canada and abroad.
Parents' Information Bureau
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy).
Parents' Information Bureau
#60 : The hand that rocks the cradle.
One form: 1 leaf (photocopy) of text by Rupert L. Humphries "from the May 1943 issue of New Generation, London, England".
Parents' Information Bureau
Material relating to the trial of Dorothea Palmer for distributing birth control information. Includes clippings about her and about the trial. Also contains a list of contents of "transfer cases" of trial material "expressed to A.R. Kaufman May 15, 1943." This material was later donated to University of Waterloo.
Parents' Information Bureau
Series consists of material relating to the life and activities of A.R. Kaufman. Includes speech texts and travel reminiscences written by him, biographical information in the form of clippings and correspondence, as well as information relating to the Dorothea Palmer Birth Control trial.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau : Incorporation
Series consists of material relating to the incorporation of The Parents' Indformation Bureau Ltd. Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. Includes letters patent, bylaws, minutes of meetings of directors, and dissolution.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. : letters patent, bylaws, minutes of meetings of directors.
Includes a certificate of dissolution dated Dec. 17, 1979.
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Parents' Information Bureau kit.
One kit sent to parents who were prescribed contraceptive jelly and pessaries from the Parents' Information Bureau by their doctor. Includes: one item of correspondence signed by Anna Weber, R.N.; contraceptive price list; pamphlet on birth control methods; instructions for use of pessary and jelly; better babies pamphlet.
Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. : journal, 1953-1978.
Accounting records for the Parents' Information Bureau, Ltd. in Kitchener, Ontario.
Parents' Information Bureau
Series consists of correspondence to and from A.R. Kaufman of a variety of topics, including birth control.
Parents' Information Bureau
Kaufman, A.R. : Russian trip memories.
Typescript carbon notes and photocopies of manuscript and typescript materials relating to A.R. Kaufman's travels in 1929, 1958-1959 and 1963 to various destinations in the world including England, India, New Zealand and Russia. Includes a photocopy of a CKCO TV interview about his trip to Russia in 1963.
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Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. : share certficate book.
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[4] p. leaflet.
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#5 : General information on sterilization.
1 leaf mimeographed sheet. Not on PIB letterhead.
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[#5] : Planned parenthood progress in Canada.
Informational sheet signed by A.R. Kaufman (signature original), on Parent's Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead regarding family planning in Canada.
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#10 : Vasectomy : sterilization of the male.
Informational document about vasectomies on Parent's Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead. Details what they are, how the procedure is performed, that the decision to have one should be taken by together a husband and wife.
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#15 : form letter : acknowledging request for information about vasectomy.
1 form letter on Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead, signed M.E. Scott, Reg. N.
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#48 : H.L. Mencken, "Raid on Public health" (1940?) and "Utopia by Sterilization" (1935?).
Tss. (photocopies) of works by H.L. Mencken. "Raid on public health" was an address for presentation at Duke University; "Utopia by Sterilization" appeared in The American Mercury, Aug. 1937.
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Forms, Publications : Numbered Series
Series consists of numbered publications and printed material issued by the Parents' Information Bureau primarily in the 1960's.
Parents' Information Bureau
Report No. 1 : Report on family planning activities and the Parents' Information Bureau
Parents' Information Bureau
Informational pamphlet regarding various forms of birth control. Includes illustrations.
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#7: untitled form : vasectomy follow-up.
Form letter on Parent's Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead regarding the scheduling of an appointment following a vasectomy.
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#7A: untitled form : vasectomy follow-up.
Form letter on Parent's Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead with questions regarding the reason for a vasectomy delay following a doctor referral.
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#11 : untitled form : consent for vasectomy.
Vasectomy consent form for submission to physician and social. Includes signature spaces for husband, wife, witness, and instructions to be followed before and after procedure.
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#16 : Application and history card.
1 printed form with ms. "#16" written in bottom left-hand corner. Form is an application for birth control information; appears to be intended to accompany #18.
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#17 : form letter : vasectomy information forwarded to surgeon.
1 form letter on Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead, signed M.E. Scott, Reg. N.
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#20 : An alternative to female sterilization.
1 mimeographed leaf on Parent's Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead.
Parents' Information Bureau
#38 : Instructions for use of condom and jelly."
1 form with ms. number written in top left-hand corner (photocopy).
Parents' Information Bureau
1 form letter on Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead, signed M.E. Scott, Reg. N.
Parents' Information Bureau
#25 : form letter to doctor re vasectomy request.
1 form letter on Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead, signed M.E. Scott, Reg. N. Refers to encosures: request and consent forms, application and history card.
Parents' Information Bureau
#31 : form letter to "registered mothers" re EMKO foam.
1 form letter on Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead, signed M.E. Scott, Reg. N.
Parents' Information Bureau
#37 : Instructions for use of pessary and jelly."
1 form with ms. number written in top left-hand corner (photocopy).
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#44 : form re request for intrauterine device.
1 form on Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead.
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Statement #58, Sept. 1976 by A.R. Kaufman.
1 form on Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead.
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#1 : Report on family planning activities and the Parents' Information Bureau / by A.R. Kaufman.
One report, 4 p. leaflet, published ca. ca 1960.
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#18 : form letter : acknowledging request for information about birth control information.
1 form letter on Parents' Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead, signed M.E. Scott, Reg. N. Refers to application form (#16).
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#21 : RE: legality of sterilization.
1 mimeographed leaf, signed by A.R. Kaufman, on Parent's Information Bureau Ltd. letterhead.
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Parents' Information Bureau : Miscellaneous.
Parents' Information Bureau
Biographical information about A.R. Kaufman. Includes a photocopy of a 1962 article "The eccentric world of Alvin Ratz Kaufman," by Herc Munro and a photopy of a tribute by Dr. G. Liebbrandt, Aug. 1977. Also includes clippings and obituaries.
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