Accession Number: 53
Mountain Maternal Health League Records, 1936-1997
Bulk Dates: 1937-1990s
4.4 linear ft.
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview
History
Series I - History
Series II - Clinical and Medical
Series III - Administrative and Financial Records
Series IV - Clinical and Medical
Series V - Publicity and Fundraising
Series VI - Correspondence, 1937-1979
Series VII - Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Series VIII - Artifacts
Series IX - Restricted Correspondence

Access and Use:

Preferred citation: Mountain Maternal Health League Records, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, Ky.

Related Archives:

Louise Hutchins, RG 3
Frontier Nursing Service Collection, 1911-1976, SAA 14
Jane Pearson, RG 9

14 Manuscript Boxes

This series consists of several short published and unpublished League histories, 1936-1977 and biographical information on League founder Nell Scoville Noll. It also includes the League's original 1936 handwritten constitution and later typed versions dated 1968 and 1988.

Box 1

1. Published and unpublished historical accounts 1936-1963
2. Published and unpublished historical accounts 1963-1977
3. Better Health for Mountain Mothers1936-1958
4. Handwritten 1936 Constitution and later versions 1968, 1988
5. Family Planning in Kentucky: A History (1973)
6. Miscellaneous historical summaries, one from 1937 and the others undated
7. Biographical material for League founder, Nell Scoville Noll

This series consists of correspondence, reports and print material relating to advocacy and direct service organizations associated with the League at various times. More extensive than any other is material documenting the assistance provided by the Association for Voluntary Sterilization for training Kentucky physicians.

Box 1, continued

8. Association for Voluntary Sterilization, Inc.
9. Birth Control Federation of America
10. Council of the Southern Mountains
11. Interim Committee on Health and Welfare
12. Kentucky Birth Control League
13. Lend-a-Hand Center
14. Motherhood Advice Bureau
15. National Birth Control News
16. National Medical Council on Birth Control
17. Reproductive Freedom League
18. Southern Conference for Human Welfare

This series consists mainly of lists of Board members, budget documents, Board of Directors' meeting minutes, successive "three-year plan" documents, and correspondence directed to Board members.

Box 1, continued

19. Board Development
20. Board of Directors: Miscellaneous & 1960s
21. Board of Directors: 1970-74
22. Board of Directors: 1975-79

Box 2

1. Board of Directors: 1980-84
2. Board of Directors: 1985-89
3. Board of Directors: 1990s
4. Board of Directors: Member Lists
5. Budget: n.d. & 1930s
6. Budget: 1940s
7. Budget: 1950s
8. Budget: 1960s
9. Budget: 1970s

Box 3

1. Budget: 1980-85
2. Budget: 1986-89 (I)
3. Budget: 1986-89 (II)
4. Budget: 1990-
5. Committees
6. Contracts: General
7. Contacts: Nursing Students
8. County Lists
9. Education Committee
10. Executive Committee

Box 4

1. Insurance
2. Instructions for Workers
3. Job Descriptions
4. Memos: Miscellaneous
5. Minute Book, 1940-1964
6. Minutes-Miscellaneous
7. Minutes-Staff Meetings, 1970s
8. Minutes-Staff Meetings, 1980s
9. 1965 Proposal to the Office of Economic Opportunity
10. Renovations
11. Personnel Practices
12. Report: Annual: 1944-1945
13. Report: Annual: 1972
14. Report: Harlan
15. Report: Gretchen James
16. Reports: Miscellaneous (I)
17. Reports: Miscellaneous (II)
18. Report: Nominating Committee, 1939
19. Report: Richmond
20. Report: Semi-Annual, 1972
21. Resignations/Hiring Employees
22. Risk Management
23. Self-Study, 1972
24. Staff Evaluations
25. Three Year Plans: General & 1970-72
26. Three Year Plans: 1980-83

Box 5

1. Three Year Plans: 1984-86
2. Three Year Plans: 1987-89
3. Three Year Plans: 1990s
4. Urban Family Planning Study Project

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