Guide to the Sex Instruction Booklets,
1943-circa 1970

Collection Number: 7638

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
RMC staff
Date completed:
March 1999
EAD encoding:
Andrea Hektor
Peter Martinez, June 2003
Sarah Keen, October 2008

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Sex instruction booklets, 1943-circa 1970.
Collection Number:
7638
Quantity:
.1 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Publications.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Sex education, family life education, and child development pamphlets, broadsides, comics, and brochures designed for teenagers, pre-teens, and parents; issued by the American Social Hygiene Association, the American Social Health Association, F. E. Compton & Co., the Minnesota Dept. of Health, and others. Topics also include prostitution, sexually transmitted diseases, heterosexual dating, and marriage.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Sex education, family life education, and child development pamphlets, broadsides, comics, and brochures designed for teenagers, pre-teens, and parents; issued by the American Social Hygiene Association, the American Social Health Association, F. E. Compton & Co., the Minnesota Dept. of Health, and others. Topics also include prostitution, sexually transmitted diseases, heterosexual dating, and marriage.
SUBJECTS

Names:
American Social Health Association.
American Social Hygiene Association.

Subjects:
Adolescence--Study and teaching.
Child development--Study and teaching.
Dating (Social customs)--Study and teaching.
Marriage--Study and teaching.
Menarche--Study and teaching.
Prostitution--Study and teaching.
Sex instruction for youth.
Sexually transmitted diseases--Prevention--Study and teaching.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Sex instruction booklets, #7638. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
RELATED MATERIALS

Collecting Program: Human Sexuality Collection.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Booklets, pamphlets, newsletters
 Box 1
3 folders