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

Tue Jun 17 12:27:27 EDT 2008

Have you tried contacting the University of Rochester Library? According to
their online catalog they own this in the Miner Library Rare Books &
Archives.

Contact info can be found here.
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hslt/miner/about/staff/index.cfm#Rare%20Books%20and%20Manuscripts

michelle

2008/6/13 Janet Stewart <Janet.Stewart at umb.edu>:

>  Thanks to all who have provided very good suggestions for my hunt for the
> tract from the American Purity Alliance
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> I apologize for neglecting to mention that I had also taken a trip down ILL
> memory lane and used the NUC Pre'56 to look up this item—but to no avail for
> this specific item. However, I am always glad to have my searches
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> I will confer with the patron regarding all the good suggestions
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> Janet
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> *From:* ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:
> ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] *On Behalf Of *Mary Lehane
> *Sent:* Friday, June 13, 2008 3:13 PM
> *To:* Interlibrary Loan Listserv
> *Subject:* Re: [ILL-L] Can anyone help find this early tract?
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> NUC Pre-1956 is located, helpfully, just outside our office and, after
> blowing off the dust, I had a look by both corporate author and by title. No
> luck. There are several entries for American Purity Alliance, and the
> Library of Congress appears to hold things like their annual report and
> periodical publications, if that's any help.
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> Mary Lehane
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> Paul Jackson wrote:
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> I wonder if the pre-1956 Library of Congress volumes might contain
> additional holders of the  pamphlet?
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> Paul Jackson
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> Aims Community College
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> Greeley, CO
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> *From:* ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [
> mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org <ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *Megan Bayonet
> *Sent:* Friday, June 13, 2008 9:59 AM
> *To:* 'Interlibrary Loan Listserv'
> *Subject:* RE: [ILL-L] Can anyone help find this early tract?
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> You might check with some of the museums in New York City.  The Museum of
> Sex and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum are two that pop into my mind as
> likely candidates.
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> *Megan Bayonet*
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> Interlibrary Loan Coordinator
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> *From:* ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [
> mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org <ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *April Younglove
> *Sent:* Friday, June 13, 2008 11:34 AM
> *To:* Interlibrary Loan Listserv
> *Subject:* RE: [ILL-L] Can anyone help find this early tract?
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> 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?
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> April Younglove
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> Technical Services Specialist
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> Linfield College, Portland Campus Library
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> *From:* ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [
> mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org <ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *Janet Stewart
> *Sent:* Friday, June 13, 2008 7:33 AM
> *To:* Interlibrary Loan Listserv
> *Subject:* [ILL-L] Can anyone help find this early tract?
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> I am hoping against hope that someone may have this early 20th century
> tract in their collections—perhaps in a rare book collection?
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> 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
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> The title is *Regulation** **reviewed: reasons against state sanction of
> social evil** *and the corporate author is the American Purity Alliance
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> The date is 1902?  It's a tract against the idea of regulating
> prostitution.
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> The Worldcat record is 20690117 and the one holding institution no longer
> has the item.
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> It is only 16 pages according to the Worldcat record
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> 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
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> Thanks
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> Janet Stewart
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> Interim Supervisor of Interlibrary Loan
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> Healey LIbrary
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> UMass Boston
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> 617-287-5931
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> Janet.Stewart at umb.edu
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