[ILL-L] Can anyone help find this early tract?

[April Younglove]

At the Oregon Historical Society there are a number of pamphlets that
sound similar to what you are asking for in the Oregon Social Hygiene
Collection.  There were Hygiene Societies across the country in the
early 20th Century that were concerned with promoting health issues
(primarily prevention of syphilis) and combating what they called Social
Evil (prostitution, masturbation, smoking etc.). I don't think the
Oregon collection goes back quite to 1902, but perhaps a similar
regional collection will. Given that the publication is a tract and not
a book, I wonder if your patron should be looking in an archive instead
of a special collection?  

 

April Younglove

Technical Services Specialist

Linfield College, Portland Campus Library

503-413-7448

ayoungl at linfield.edu

 

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[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Janet Stewart
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Subject: [ILL-L] Can anyone help find this early tract?

 

I am hoping against hope that someone may have this early 20th century
tract in their collections-perhaps in a rare book collection?

I say rare book because the one web reference I have found provides a
listing of the item in a catalog of Early American popular medical
books. That catalog is apparently the listing of items in the Edward C
Atwater collection at the University of Rochester which is the one
holding in World cat referred to below

 

The title is Regulation reviewed: reasons against state sanction of
social evil and the corporate author is the American Purity Alliance

The date is 1902?  It's a tract against the idea of regulating
prostitution.

 

 

The Worldcat record is 20690117 and the one holding institution no
longer has the item.

 

It is only 16 pages according to the Worldcat record 

 

We would be interested in knowing if anyone owns this whether or not you
are willing to lend or copy since our patron may be interested in
viewing on site

 

I

 

Thanks 

Janet Stewart

Interim Supervisor of Interlibrary Loan

Healey LIbrary 

UMass Boston

617-287-5931

Janet.Stewart at umb.edu

 

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