Eleanor Poorman Hamilton papers, 1959-1999.
Collection Number: 7836
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Eleanor Poorman Hamilton papers, 1959-1999.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7836
Abstract:
Collection includes articles by Eleanor Hamilton from weekly columns in Point Reyes
Light and manuscripts of unpublished autobiographical material, including "Story of
a Happy Marriage", "My Vow, "The Maternal Care Adoption Center" and "The Treasure
and Tragedy of Wilhelm Reich".
Creator:
Hamilton, Eleanor Poorman, 1909-2008.
Quanitities:
.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Born Eleanor Poorman in Portland in 1909, Hamilton grew up in Oregon. While a college
student, she decided to devote her life to improving women's experiences with love
and sex. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1930, she spent a career
as an educator and psychologist in New York and California. She helped young women
get contraceptives in the 1940s, arranged private, semi-open adoptions long before
they became legal, participated in the Kinsey report on Americans' sex lives, and
studied the work of Wilhelm Reich. She wrote a sex-and-love column for Modern Bride
magazine in the 1960s, published several books (Partners in Love, Sex Before Marriage),
and talked about sexuality on television talk shows including Phil Donahue and Johnny
Carson. In 1932, she married Albert Edward Hamilton who nicknamed her Ranger. They
raised children. After he died in 1969, she moved to California and had two relationships
with women. She returned to Oregon in 1995 and died in 2008.
Collection includes articles by Eleanor Hamilton from weekly columns in Point Reyes
Light and Modern Bride and manuscripts of unpublished autobiographical material, including
"Story of a Happy Marriage", "My Vow, "The Maternal Care Adoption Center" and "The
Treasure and Tragedy of Wilhelm Reich".
Books - cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
- Hamilton, Eleanor. Partners In Love, 1968 (revised edition, abridged)
- Hamilton, Eleanor. Sex Before Marriage, 1969
- Hamilton, Eleanor. Sex, with Love, A Guide for Young People, 1978 (inscribed by author to "Dear John...")
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Eleanor Poorman Hamilton papers, #7836. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Subjects:
Contraception.
Sex.
Couples.
Marriage.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Photo of Eleanor Hamilton
|
Undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Autobiographicals, unpublished
|
Undated |
|
Scope and Contents
The Story of a Happy Marriage, My Vow, The Maternal Care Adoption Center, The Treasure
and Tragedy of Wilhelm Reich
|
|||
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Typed articles
|
Undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Point Reyes Light, Living and Loving columns
|
1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Point Reyes Light, Living and Loving columns
|
1987 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Point Reyes Light, Living and Loving columns
|
1990's |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Point Reyes Light, Living and Loving columns
|
1991 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Point Reyes Light, Living and Loving columns
|
1992 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Point Reyes Light, Living and Loving columns
|
1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Point Reyes Light, Living and Loving columns
|
1997 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Point Reyes Light, Living and Loving columns
|
1998 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Point Reyes Light, Living and Loving columns
|
1999 |
| Manuscript Box 88 |
Modern Bride articles
|
1959-1963 | |