Paul Popenoe papers, 1874-2016

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Popenoe, Paul, 1888-1979
Title
Paul Popenoe papers
Dates
1874-2016 (inclusive)
Quantity
98.15 cubic ft. (203 boxes)
Collection Number
04681
Summary
The collection contains case files and correspondence regarding the American Institute of Family Relations, which Paul Bowman Popenoe founded in 1929. Also included are printed columns; scripts from radio and television programs; and manuscripts of and articles authored by this prolific writer whose interests included biology, eugenics, heredity, social hygiene, family relations, marriage counseling, and sex education in schools.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public. However, Series V, Sub-series 2 contains patient names. To protect their identity, their names may not be cited in any published or unpublished work. Therefore, researchers who use these papers must sign an agreement to respect the confidentiality of the personal data in boxes 145-166.

Languages
English
Sponsor
The creation of the EAD-version of this finding aid was made possible through a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Paul Bowman Popenoe was born in 1888. He was an author, lecturer, and research worker in biology, eugenics, heredity, social hygiene, and family relations. He attended Occidental College from 1905 until 1907. He transferred to Stanford University in 1907 for his junior year but had to leave school to care for his father and run the family business, a fruit farm in the Coachella Valley, California. In 1911, on behalf of his father he traveled through the Middle East, South Africa, India, and Europe exploring agricultural practices. He returned home in 1913 with 16,000 date palm specimens.

Although he continued to work with dates until 1935, his real interest was in eugenics. From 1913 until 1917 he worked as editor of the Journal of Heredity. Late in World War I, in 1917, Popenoe assisted the medical section chief of the Council for National Defense before being drafted and commissioned on the staff of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army Sanitary Corps. After the war, he returned to the Coachella Valley to grow dates. In 1926, he became secretary and director of research for the Human Betterment Foundation in Pasadena, which was devoted chiefly to the spread of eugenic principles. He remained there until 1931. In 1929, he received an honorary doctorate in science from Occidental College.

In 1929 he founded the American Institute for Family Relations and remained its director until 1976. While director, he also had nationally syndicated daily newspaper columns, “Modern Marriage” and “Your Family and You,” was host of a television program, “Divorce Hearing,” and a regular guest on Art Linkletter’s “House Party” and other radio and television shows. He had an advice column “Can This Marriage Be Saved” in the Ladies Home Journal from 1953 until 1976. From 1933 to 1947 he lectured in biology at the University of Southern California.

His books include Date Growing in the New and Old World, 1913; Applied Eugenics, 1918 and 1933; Modern Marriage, 1925; The Conservation of the Family, 1926; Problems of Human Reproduction, 1926; The Child’s Heredity, 1929; Sterilization for Human Betterment, 1929; Practical Applications of Heredity, 1930; Marriage, Before and After, 1943; Marriage Is What You Make It, 1950; Divorce- 17 Ways to Avoid It, 1959; Can This Marriage Be Saved, 1960; Sex, Love, and Marriage, 1963; and The Church Looks At Family Life, 1964.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Paul Bowman Popenoe papers contain extensive information about the American Institute of Family Relations, a marriage and family counseling practice which Paul Popenoe founded in 1929. The files regarding the institute, 1929-1977, contain case files and correspondence regarding its administration. To promote the institute, he gave lectures about marriage and family problems at schools and social organizations, wrote a newspaper advice column for the National Newspaper Syndicate, appeared on radio and television programs, and wrote a column for the Ladies’ Home Journal, 1949-1976.

The National Newspaper Syndicate files contain the correspondence between Mr. Popenoe and the Syndicate, letters from readers, and the printed columns that he wrote. There are scripts from radio and television programs, 1932-1962. There is also correspondence, contracts, and publicity for the institute’s program “Divorce Hearing,” 1957-1962.

There are many correspondence files, 1875-1978, regarding Paul Popenoe’s family and professional and casual acquaintances. There are a few files about his army career in World War I and manuscripts of his books and articles. There is biographical information, photographs, and scrapbook material, 1874-1991, regarding the Popenoe family. The photographs are of Paul Popenoe, his family, and date growing, which was part of the family business. There are many subject files, 1912-1976, regarding human relations, marriage counseling, eugenics, and sex education in schools.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Paul Popenoe papers, 1874-1991, Collection Number 04681, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Related Materials

Related Materials

There are no other known archival collections created by Paul Popenoe at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information

The Paul Popenoe papers, 1874-2016, were given to the American Heritage Center by Paul Popenoe in sixteen shipments from 1970 through 1977, David Popenoe in 1998 and 2016, and Occidental College Library in 2016. The papers were received in good condition.

Processing Note

Processing Information

The collection was processed by Loreley Moore in April 2002 and updated by Jamie Greene in August 2017.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I.:  Correspondence, 1875-1978Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Sub-Series 1.: Personal Correspondence
(25.5 document boxes)
Arranged chronologically, between Paul Popenoe, his family and friends.
1875-1978
Box Folders
1 1-6
May 1875-December 1911
2 1-5
January 1912-December 1913
3 1-4
January 1914-December 1915
4 1-6
January 1916-February 1917
4A
Letter from Alexander Graham Bell [original; copy in Box 4, Folder 3]
January 1916-February 1917
Folders
5 1-5
March 1917-April 1918
6 1-6
May 1918-October 1919
7 1-6
November 1919-May 1920
8 1-6
June-December 1920
9 1-7
January 1921-February 1924
10 1-7
March 1924-December 1927
11 1-7
January 1928-December 1931
12 1-7
January 1932-December 1938
13 1-6
February 1939-March 1941
14 1-6
April 1941-December 1944
15 1-7
January 1945-March 1949
16 1-7
April 1949-December 1951
17 1-7
January 1952-June 1956
18 1-6
July 1956-December 1959
19 1-6
January 1960-August 1961
20 1-6
September 1961-December 1963
21 1-6
January 1964-March 1967
22 1-5
April 1967-April 1969
23 1-6
May 1969-May 1972
24 1-6
June 1972-June 1975
25 1-5
July 1975-December 1978
Sub-Series 2.: General Correspondence
(16.5 document boxes)
Arranged chronologically, between Paul Popenoe and professional associates regarding his articles and books and regarding human relations.
1937-1976
Box Folders
25 6-7
January 1937-March 1951
26 1-7
April 1951-April 1955
27 1-6
May 1955-March 1959
28 1-6
April 1959-March 1961
29 1-7
April 1961-June 1963
30 1-7
July 1963-February 1967
31 1-6
March – August 1967
32 1-5
September 1967-September 1968
33 1-6
October 1968-May 1969
34 1-7
June-December 1969
35 1-7
January-August 1970
36 1-7
September 1970-May 1971
37 1-6
June 1971-March 1972
38 1-6
April-December 1972
39 1-6
January 1973-February 1974
40 1-6
March 1974-January 1975
41 1-7
February 1975-October 1976
201
Arnett, Eugene (correspondence regarding eugenics)
1930
200
Grant, Madison (correspondence, notes, and manuscript materials regarding eugenics)
1930-1932
Sub-Series 3.: Ladies’ Home Journal
(4.5 document boxes)
Arranged chronologically, between Paul Popenoe and the editorial department regarding his articles, books, and human relations.
1949-1976
Box Folders
42 1-7
May 1949-January 1956
43 1-5
February-December 1956
44 1-6
January 1957-December 1963
45 1-6
January 1964-December 1970
46 1-4
January 1971-February 1976

Series II.:  World War I. US War Department Section on Vice and Liquor Control, 1917-1919Return to Top

(1.5 document boxes)

Arranged chronologically, regarding prostitution and bootleg liquor near US Army camps and control of venereal disease. Includes memoranda, notes, reports, and bulletins.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folders
46 5-8
June-December 1917
47 1-6
January 1918-July 1919

Series III.:  National Newspaper Syndicate, 1936-1972Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Sub-Series 1.: Reader Correspondence
(40 document boxes)
Arranged chronologically, letters from the readers of the newspaper columns “Modern Marriage” and “Your Family and You” asking Dr. Popenoe for advice about their marriage and family problems.
1947-1971
Box Folders
48 1-7
July 1947-December 1948
49 1-5
January-December 1949
50 1-5
January-June 1950
51 1-7
July 1950-January 1951
52 1-4
February-August 1951
53 1-6
September 1951-February 1952
54 1-4
March-June 1952
55 1-5
July-November 1952
56 1-5
December 1952-February 1953
57 1-5
March-August 1953
58 1-5
September 1953-February 1954
59 1-4
March-June 1954
60 1-5
July-November 1954
61 1-5
December 1954-April 1955
62 1-5
May-September 1955
63 1-5
October 1955-February 1956
64 1-6
March-August 1956
65 1-5
September 1956-January 1957
66 1-5
February-July 1957
67 1-5
August-December 1957
68 1-5
January-April 1958
69 1-5
May-September 11, 1958
70 1-5
September 24-December 1958
71 1-5
January-March 1959
72 1-5
April-September 1959
73 1-6
October 1959-March 15, 1960
74 1-5
March 20-July 1960
75 1-5
August-December 1960
76 1-4
January-April 1961
77 1-4
May-August 1961
78 1-5
September 1961-January 16, 1962
79 1-6
January 18-June 1962
80 1-5
July-November 1962
81 1-6
December 1962-July 1963
82 1-6
August 1963-February 1964
83 1-5
March-December 1964
84 1-6
January 1965-May 1966
85 1-6
June 1966-February 1968
86 1-5
March 1968-August 1969
87 1-5
September 1969-December 1971
Sub-Series 2.: Syndicate Correspondence
(1.5 document boxes)
Arranged chronologically, between Paul Popenoe and the editorial department regarding contract negotiations for the column “Modern Marriage,” editorial policies, and payments.
1936-1972
Box Folders
88 1-7
August 1936-December 1955
89 1-4
January 1956-September 1972
Sub-Series 3.: Columns, “Modern Marriage” and “Your Family and You,”
(22 document boxes)
Arranged chronologically. Inclusive daily columns of “Modern Marriage,” which was renamed, “Your Family and You” in January 1958.
1947-1972
Box Folders
89 5-7
January-December 1947
90 1-5
January-November 1948
91 1-6
December 1948-September 1949
92 1-5
October 1949-December 1950
93 1-5
January 1951-March 1952
94 1-5
April 1952-March 1953
95 1-6
April 1953-June 1954
96 1-7
July 1954-June 1955
97 1-6
July 1955-October 1956
98 1-7
November 1956-October 1957
99 1-7
November 1957-December 1958
100 1-7
January 1959-February 1960
101 1-8
March 1960-April 1961
102 1-6
May 1961-April 1962
103 1-7
May 1962-June 1963
104 1-7
July 1963-August 1964
105 1-8
September 1964-December 1965
106 1-8
January 1966-April 1967
107 1-8
May 1967-August 1968
108 1-8
September 1968-February 1970
109 1-7
March 1970-April 1971
110 1-6
May 1971-April 1972
111 1-2
May-September 1972

Series IV.:  Subject Files, 1912-1976Return to Top

(25.5 document boxes)

Arranged alphabetically. Regarding human relations. Includes newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, and reports.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folders
111 3-8
Abortion
1929-1974
112 1-5
Adoptions
1939-1976
112 6-7
Aggressiveness
1936-1966
Folder
112 8
Aging
1939-1947
Folders
113 1-4
Aging
1948-1967
113 5-6
Alcoholism
1945-1954
Folder
114 1
Alcoholism
1955-1965
Folders
114 2-6
American Eugenic Society
1914-1974
Folder
114 7
Artificial Insemination
1934-1968
114 8
Baby Sitters
1947-1961
114 9
Breastfeeding
1969-1971
115 1
Campfire Girls
1957
115 2
Camping
1934-1954
115 3
Children: Allowance and Budgeting
1925-1961
115 4
Children: Cooperative Play Games
1943-1950
115 5
Children: Discipline
1937-1958
115 6
Children: Only Child
1953
115 7
Children: Snoring
1966
115 8
Children: Speech Problems
1954-1962
115 9
Children: Toys
1935-1963
115 10
Children: Work
1944-1962
115 11
Computer Dating
1970
115 12
Contraception
1936-1942
116 1
Counseling Course
1934-1945
116 2
Crime and Criminals
1959-1963
116 3
Deafness
1959-1963
116 4
Death
1951-1968
116 5
Divorce: Canada
1945-1968
116 6
Divorce: Children and Divorce
1923-1971
116 7
Divorce: England
1945-1948
116 8
Divorce: Family Discussion
1920, 1949-1953
116 9
Divorce: Mexican Marriage and Divorce
1944
116 10
Divorce: Miscellaneous
1923-1968
116 11
Divorce: Reconciliation
1921-1957
Folders
117 1-2
Divorce: Reform
1939-1971
Folder
117 3
Divorce: Remarriage of Divorcees to Each Other
1933-1961
117 4
Divorce: South Carolina
1942-1950
Folders
117 5-7
Divorce: Statistics
1922-1965
Folder
117 8
Divorce: U.S.S.R.
1930-1965
118 1
Dreams
1947-1972
118 2
Drug Addiction
1950-1973
118 3
Education: Democracy and Education
1937-1947
Folders
118 4-5
Education: Family Living
1935-1952
Folder
118 6
Education: Gifted Children
1950
118 7
Education: Marriage and Family College Courses
1930-1950
119 1
Education: Marriage and High School Courses
1931-1948
119 2
Education: Miscellaneous
1940-1975
119 3
Education: Senior High School Girls Course of study in Childcare
1939
Folders
119 4-6
Education: Sex Education
1918-1947
Folder
119 7
Education: Social Hygiene
1930-1946
120 1
Education: Teachers
1929-1954
Emigration and Immigration files:
Box
190
New England Summary #1-2
1928
190
New England to 1790 (6 folders)
1930-1933
190
Scandinavian
1929-1933
190
Slavs
1932
190
South Highlands to 1860 (7 folders)
1920
190
Spanish
1929
190
Departments of France and their contributions to immigration 1857-1890
1931
190
Filipinos
April 1930
190
German to 1790 (3 folders)
1925-1935
190
German to 1860 (3 folders)
1925-1935
190
Germans
1932-1933
190
Greeks
1929
190
Hindus
1916-1930
190
Immigration
1924-1930
190
Irish
1910-1931
190
Italian
1924-1929
190
Japanese
1924-1934
190
Mennonites
1920-1935
190
Dutch, Turks, Romanian, Portugal
1929
190
Mississippi Valley to 1790
1929
190
Uncompleted work
1925-1935
190
Alabama to 1860 (7 files)
1925-1935
190
Arizona
1930
190
Unlabeled Arizona
August 29, 1930
190
Arkansas to 1860 (6 files)
1925-1935
190
California to 1860
1930-1932
190
California I-III, V (4 files)
1925-1935
190
Canada late foreign immigration
1934
190
Canada- duplicates
1925-1935
190
Canada- Saskatchewan
1930-1935
190
Canada- British Columbia
1928-1930
190
Canada- Manitoba
1925-1935
190
Canada- New Brunswick
1925-1935
190
Canada- Newfoundland
August 2, 1931
190
Canada- Novia Scotia
1925-1935
190
Canada- Ontario
1934-1936
190
Canada- Quebec
1925-1935
190
Canada- General
1924-1932
190
Canada
1925-1935
190
Canada- French period
1932-1933
190
Connecticut summaries to 1790
1931-1939
190
Connecticut to 1790 (5 folders)
1931-1939
191
Delaware to 1970 (7 folders)
1925-1935
191
Colonizing Delaware
1931
191
Florida to 1860 (8 folders)
1925-1935
191
Georgia miscellaneous
1930-1931
191
Georgia to 1970 (7 folders)
1925-1935
191
Idaho to 1980
1925-1935
191
Idaho to 1930
1930-1935
191
Illinois to 19860 (7 folders)
1925-1935
191
Indiana general
1930
191
Indiana to 1860
1930-1935
191
Iowa general
1930-1931
191
Iowa summary to 1790
1925-1935
191
Iowa to 1860 (5 folders)
1925-1935
191
Kansas general
1930
191
Kansas summary of 1860
1925-1935
191
Kentucky to 1860
1925-1935
191
Kentucky summary
1931
192
Louisiana to 1960 (7 folders)
1925-1935
192
Maine to 1790 (6 folders)
1925-1935
192
Maryland summary
1931-1933
192
Mississippi to 1860 (5 folders)
1925-1935
192
Mississippi Valley to 1790 (6 folders)
1925-1935
192
Massachusetts to 1790 (6 folders)
February 1929
192
Massachusetts maps and articles
1923-1935
192
Mexicans
1930-1935
192
Mexico
1920-1929
192
Central America general
1925-1935
192
Guatemala
1925-1935
192
Honduras- Salvador Nicaragua
1925-1935
192
Argentina
1930-1935
192
Bolivia
1934
192
Brazil
1934
192
Chile
1934
192
Peru
August 21, 1932
192
Uruguay
1925-1935
192
Costa Rica-Cuba
1933
192
Latin America general
1925-1935
192
Michigan to 1860 (7 folders)
1925-1935
192
Michigan general
1931
192
Minnesota to 1860 (6 folders)
1925-1935
192
Minnesota general
1930
192
Minnesota summary to 1860
1925-1935
193
Montana to 1860
1930
193
Montana to 1930
1930-1935
193
Nebraska to 1900 (4 folders)
1925-1935
193
Nevada correspondence
August 15, 1930
193
New Hampshire to 1790 - summaries
1930-1935
193
New Hampshire to 1790 (5 folders)
1925-1935
193
New Jersey - general
1930-1931
193
New Jersey to 1790 (7 folders)
1930-1931
193
New Mexico
1930-1931
193
New York - general
1930
193
North Carolina to 1790 (7 folders)
1930-1935
193
North Dakota to 1930
1930-1935
193
North Dakota 1860
1925-1935
193
Ohio - general
1930-1934
193
Ohio to 1860 (7 folders)
1930-1935
193
Oklahoma
1930-1935
193
Oregon to 1930
1930-1935
193
Oregon general
1930-1934
193
Pennsylvania general
1928-1935
193
Pennsylvania to 1790 (7 folders)
1930-1935
193
Rhode Island to 1790 (5 folders)
1925-1935
193
Rhode Island - general
1930-1931
193
South Carolina to 1790 (7 folders)
1925-1935
193
South Dakota to 1930
1925-1935
193
Tennessee to 1860 (7 folders)
1925-1935
194
Texas 1-3, 5
1925-1935
194
Texas - general
1922-1932
194
Texas to 1930
1930
194
Utah to 1860
1925-1935
194
Vermont 1930
September 1931
194
Vermont to 1790 (5 folders)
1925-1935
194
Virginia to 1790 (8 folders)
1925-1935
194
Washington to 1860
1920
194
Washington to 1930
1930-1935
194
West Virginia - general
1930
194
Wisconsin to 1860 (7 folders)
1930-1940
194
Wyoming
August 20, 1930
201
Austria
1929-1931
201
Belgians-Bulgaria
1929
201
Belgians-Bulgaria
1929
201
British
1929-1931
201
Chinese
1929-1933
201
Czech-Slovaks
1929-1932
201
Catholics
1931-1934
201
Census data to 1830
1920-1932
201
Census data to 1860
undated
201
General to 1860 (6 folders)
1927-1932
201
General Summaries to 1790 (19 folders)
1924-1930
Folders
120 2-3
Emotional Maturity
1930-1969
Folder
120 4
Emotions
1915-1946
Eugenics - 25th Anniversary, marriage laws
1934-1940
Box
200
Natural history
1934-1940
200
Heredity journals
1930-1945
200
Marriage and divorce
1920-1945
200
Eugenics - Mexico
1941-1943
Eugenics - Birth Control:
Box
198
Miscellaneous journals
1938-1958
198
Articles and essays related to population
1928-1960
198
Population
1924-1935
198
Eugenics
1925-1935
198
Heredity
1930-1935
Eugenics - Diseases:
Box
194
Journals
1925-1940
194
German publications
1933-1952
194
Mammae
1926-1929
194
Manic depressive psych
1924-1928
194
Mathematics
1921-1928
195
Memory
1920-1927
195
Metabolism
1923-1927
195
Microcephalics
1930
195
Microcephaly
1922
195
Migraine
1921-1933
195
Moral qualities
1926-1930
195
Morphology
1923-1927
195
Muscles
1935
195
Muscular atrophy
1925-1935
195
Music
1923-1940
Eugenics - Fertility:
Box
195
Fertility advice
1930-1949
195
Journals - "Human Fertility"
1940-1947
195
Journals - "The Journal of Contraception"
1936-1939
195
Essays - Blandau and Young
1939-1941
195
German journals, correspondence, and articles (2 folders)
1930-1932
195
Social and psychological factors affecting fertility
1943-1947
195
Abnormal development
1937-1946
195
Sterility
1928-1949
196
Essay - "A Note on the Genetic Factors in Human Sterility"
1935-1945
196
Reproduction, problems of
1916-1940
196
Biological Aspects
1935-1939
196
X-rays
1922-1935
196
Fecundity - general
1923-1936
196
Sterility
1919-1947
196
Sterility Articles
1926-1947
196
Sterility notes and correspondence
1919-1945
196
Sterility German
1928-1936
196
Sterility Women
1932-1941
196
Report - "Medical Aspects of Human Fertility"
1932
Eugenics - Fertility and Heredity:
Box
196
University of Kentucky
1922
196
Book - "Facts for Childless Couples" by E.C. Hamblen, M.D.
1942
196
Miscellaneous
1931-1940
196
Journals - "Eugenics Quarterly"
1956
196
Journals - "Zwillingstuberkulose III"
1956
196
Eugenics
undated
196
Newspaper articles
1945-1958
196
Journals
1941-1958
196
Journals: German and Spanish
1930-1958
196
E. Roberts correspondence: heredity
1938-1940
196
Heredity
1936-1950
196
Mental disorders
1940-1956
196
Hazel Ann Delhart (?) correspondence
1946
196
Hankins for discussions
1943
196
Printed material only
1951-1956
196
Index cards
undated
Eugenics - Genetics Miscellaneous:
Box
197
Genetics and inheritance of disease
1913-1948
197
Papers from the Laboratory of Vertebrate Biology
1950
197
Sterilization, psychological disease, and other articles
1913-1958
197
Dr. Sewall Wright
undated
197
Eugenics
1930-1950
197
Heredity and education
1929-1940
Eugenics - Heredity:
Box
194
Q- eugenic gofet (?) of euthenic movement/ A- social
1930-1931
194
C- diff away men III
1930-1940
194
A- nature or nurture
1930-1940
194
LH Snyder dept. of zoology correspondence
1940
194
S- history
1930-1940
194
D- inheritance of differences IV
1928
194
L- eugenic ethos
1930-1940
194
Newspaper and journal clippings
1933-1941
194
Journals
1929-1959
194
German journals, correspondence, and articles (2 folders)
1930-1959
194
Correspondence
1935-1940
Eugenics - Immigration and Migration:
Box
195
Journal articles
1917-1935
195
Congressional publications
1924-1931
195
Newspaper clippings
1923-1934
195
Correspondence
1931-1934
195
Manuscript
August 20, 1932
195
Notes and essays
1925-1935
195
America
1924-1930
195
Utah to 1860
1923-1928
195
Teacher's college
1932
Eugenics - Mating, Adoption, etc.:
1918-1925
Box
199
Psychology: military and students
1918-1925
199
Match making
1931
199
Abnormal Psychology - material presented in lecture before class
March 1920
199
Intelligence tests
1917-1930
199
Social standing and gender
1925-1930
199
Notable families
1925-1930
199
Popenoe lecture notes
1921-1935
199
Family, children
1917-1925
199
Celibacy
1925-1930
199
College life and family
1928
199
Foster children
1917-1934
Eugenics - Mental Health:
1920-1935
Box
198
"A Letter to Parents"
undated
198
Mental health
1915-1951
198
Mexico and mental health
1949-1951
198
Pathology
1913-1951
Eugenics - Multiple Births: Twins, triplets, and quadruplets
undated
Eugenics - Problems A-V:
Box
199
Albinism
1934
199
Achondroplasy
undated
199
Aderoids and tonsils
1924-1926
199
Adiposity
1923-1926
199
Alcoholism
1916-1924
199
Allergy
1930-1936
199
Amaurotic idiocy
1923-1931
199
Anemia
March 27, 1926
199
Apoplexy
undated
199
Appendicitis
1926
199
Art
1920-1929
199
Ataxia
1927-1930
199
Bacteria
1926
199
Behavior
1917-1929
199
Birth palsy
undated
199
Blood
1915-1930
199
Body and mind
1923-1929
199
Bones
1926
199
Bronchiectasis
1928
199
Cancer
1916-1936
199
Capillaries
1935
199
Chess
1926
199
Club foot
1922-1926
199
Color vision
1918-1929
200
Complexion
undated
200
Constitution
1925-1935
200
Convulsions
1924-1926
200
Correlation of traits
1925
200
Cretinism
1923-1927
200
Criminality
1929-1932
200
Cryptorchidism
1922-1932
197
Dementia praecox
1921-1931
197
Development
1919-1934
197
Development, errors of
1930-1940
197
Diabetes insipidus
1929
197
Diabetes mellitus
1927-1934
197
Digits
1922-1932
197
Disease
1921-1934
197
Dupuytren's contraction
1926
197
Dwarfism
undated
200
Deafness
1925-1930
200
Development: walking, talking, and teething (Sonoma)
1929
200
Early man
1884-1925
197
Ears
1926-1931
197
Emotions
undated
197
Encephalitis
1928
197
Endocrine glands
1931
197
Enuresis
1926-1931
197
Eyes
1919-1934
200
Fingerprints
1925-1935
200
Flat foot
1926
200
General
1918-1930
200
Genius
1920-1935
200
Goiter
1922-1929
200
Hair
1920-1935
200
Heart
1925-1929
200
Heredity, mechanism of
1925-1935
200
Hernia
1923-1933
200
Huntington's chorea
1916-1932
200
Hydrocephalics
1919
200
Hypersensitiveness
1915-1928
200
Hypertension
1923-1934
200
Harelip
1931-1934
200
Heredity- photographs and correspondence for publication
1924-1928
200
Immunity
1924-1925
200
Instincts
1915-1925
200
Intelligence: mechanical
1927-1928
200
Intelligence: social
1927
200
Intestines
1920
200
Jaundice
1926
200
Kidneys
1924-1925
200
Lactation
1927
200
Left-handedness
1926
200
Longevity
1931
197
Nails
May 23, 1925
197
Neuroses
1915-1927
197
Nomadism
1923
197
Nose
1921-1929
197
Obesity
1930-1936
197
Origin of new traits
1925
197
Osteopetrosis
1926
197
Paralysis
1934
197
Paranoia
undated
197
Paternity
1920-1929
197
Pelvis
undated
197
Personality
undated
197
Physiognomy
1925-1926
197
Pneumonia
1926
197
Polydactyly
1924-1933
197
Racial traits
undated
197
Radio-ulnar synostosis
undated
197
"Notes on Juvenile Rheumatism"
1927
197
Rickets
1925-1937
197
Scapula
1910-1931
197
Scurvy
undated
197
Senses
1924
197
Sex
1923-1927
197
Photographs
undated
197
Situs inversus
1925-1927
197
Skin
1920-1937
198
Skull
1922
198
Smell
1918
198
Speech defects
1919
198
Spelling
undated
198
Spina bifida
undated
198
Split-hand
1936-1937
198
Stature
1920-1925
198
Stomach
1931
198
St Vitus dance
1917
198
Suicide
1917-1925
198
Teeth
1910-1935
198
Temperament
1920-1930
198
Thyroid
1922-1929
198
Tuberculosis
1915-1935
198
Voice
1925
198
Notes
1915-1920
Eugenics - Race:
Box
196
Jews, marriage, and birth
1936-1939
196
Natural selection
1925-1930
196
Infant mortality
1926-1928
196
Longevity
1930-1931
196
Eugenics research
1919-1932
196
Eugenics and education
1927-1939
196
New York chamber of commerce publications
April 16, 1934
196
Eugenics and anthropology
1927-1940
196
German eugenics publications
1920-1936
196
Evolution
1920-1930
196
B. mod. of the genes 2
1924-1926
197
Appendix: motivation
1935-1940
197
Correspondence with Dr. William W. Krauss
1941
197
Eugenics and religion
1918-1933
197
Essay: "The Euthenic Aspect of Some Euthenic Measures"
undated
197
Eugenics and health
1930-1932
Folder
120 5
Euthanasia
1925-1950
120 6
Family: Church and the Family
1951-1955
Folders
120 7-8
Family: Counseling
1930-1966
Folder
120 9
Family: Family in Society
1936-1958
121 1
Family: Father’s Role
1931-1972
Folders
121 2-5
Family: Income
1925-1967
Folder
121 6
Family: Making a Home Happy
1930-1961
122 1
Family: Marital and Family Adjustment in Rural and Urban Families of Two Generations
1949
122 2
Family: Teamwork in the Home
1935-1960
122 3
Gambling
1947-1967
122 4
Grandparents
1949-1964
Folders
122 5-6
Group Therapy
1945-1970
Folder
122 7
Guilt
1954
122 8
Happiness
1948-1949
122 9
Heredity: Counseling
1930-1966
122 10
Heredity: Germ Plasma
1924-1944
122 11
Heredity: Miscellaneous
1917-1972
122 12
Holidays: Christmas
1945-1970
123 1
Holidays: Miscellaneous
1951-1966
123 2
Homemaking
1937-1957
Folders
123 3-4
Homosexuality
1928-1976
Folder
123 5
Hypnotism
1948-1963
Folders
123 6-7
Illegitimacy
1923-1972
Folder
123 8
Impotence
1929-1950
124 1
Incest
1971
124 2
Infatuation
1949-1950
124 3
Inferiority Complex
1935-1967
124 4
Jealousy
1935-1969
124 5
Jewish Teachings
1939-1960
Folders
124 6-8
Juvenile Delinquents
1929-1969
125 1-2
Juvenile Delinquents
1973-1976
Folder
125 3
Longevity: Alexander Graham Bell
1916-1917
125 4
Longevity: Correspondence, Casper L. Redfield
1916-1925
Folders
125 5-6
Longevity: Miscellaneous
1917-1946
Folder
125 7
Low Income Families
1958-1964
126 1
Marriage: Acquaintance-Betrothal
1934-1947
126 2
Marriage: The Art of Getting On A Mate
1925-1962
126 3
Marriage: Childlessness
1943-1952
126 4
Marriage: College Marriages
1939-1950
Folders
126 5-6
Marriage: Conciliation Court
1937-1969
Folder
126 7
Marriage: Conflict Marriages
1947-1962
126 8
Marriage: Cousin Marriage
1915-1963
127 1
Marriage: Differences in the Age Married
1926-1956
127 2
Marriage: Intermarriage: Racial
1948-1963
127 3
Marriage: Intermarriage: Religion
1932-1972
Folders
127 4-7
Marriage: Marriage Counseling
1936-1972
Folder
127 8
Marriage: Marriage of Kin
1923
127 9
Marriage: Mate Marriage
1936-1960
128 1
Marriage: Miscellaneous
1924-1972
128 2
Marriage: Mother-In-Law
1936-1958
128 3
Marriage: Nurses
1930-1931
128 4
Marriage: Sexual Adjustment
1917-1950
128 5
Marriage: Unfaithfulness
1940-1957
128 6
Marriage: Unreal Expectations
1948-1959
128 7
Menopause
1930-1975
128 8
Menstruation
1926-1962
128 9
Mental Illness: Cedars of Lebanon
1947
128 10
Mental Illness: Depression
1949-1968
128 11
Mental Illness: Dianetics
1950-1951
128 12
Mental Illness: International Congress of Psychiatry
1950
128 13
Mental Illness: Music Therapy
1962-1972
128 14
Mental Illness: New Approaches to Mental Health Treatment for Labor and Low Income Groups
1964
129 1
Mental Illness: Paranoid and Hysteroid
1938-1960
129 2
Mental Illness: Psychopaths
1944-1959
Folders
129 3-4
Mental Illness: Psychotherapy
1923-1971
Folder
129 5
Mental Illness: Radio Talks on Mental Hygiene
1934-1937
Folders
129 6-7
Mental Illness: Schizophrenia
1929-1973
Folder
129 8
Mental Illness: Volunteers in Community Mental Health
1970
129 9
Nudism
1929-1968
129 10
Obesity
1941-1976
Folders
130 1-3
Parents
1929-1964
130 4-6
Personality
1930-1972
Folder
131 1
Pornography
1970-1976
131 2
Pregnancy
1928-1964
131 3
Premarital Sex: Feelings of Regret Involved in Premarital Intercourse
1969
Folders
131 4-5
Premarital Sex: Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relationships
1960
Folder
131 6
Premarital Sex: Sexual Experimentation
1937-1954
131 7
Preparation for Marriage: Miscellaneous
1930-1946
131 8
Preparation for Marriage: Pastoral Counseling
1923-1953
132 1
Preparation for Marriage: Pastoral Counseling
1954-1964
132 2
Preparation for Marriage: Premarital Counseling Techniques
1941-1970
Folders
132 3-4
Preparation for Marriage: Premarital Medical Examination
1923-1960
Folder
132 5
Preparation for Marriage: Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
1937
132 6
Prison System
1945-1955
132 7
Prostitution
1915-1974
132 8
Relaxation
1941-1958
133 1
Report Two of the Research Department of the Institute of Family Relations
1958
133 2
Sex: Differences between the Sexes
1929-1945
133 3
Sex: Education
1929-1974
133 4
Sex: Ethics
1912-1968
133 5
Sex: Frigidity
1933-1959
134 1
Sex: Periodicity of Sexual Desire
1925-1926, 1950
134 2
Sex: Sex Offenders
1945-1970
134 3
Sex: Therapy
1918-1974
134 4
Sex: Transvestism
1920s-1970
134-135 and 194
Sterilization of Humans
1927-2003
Folder
135 2
Suicide
1962-1973
Folders
135 3-7
Teenagers
1922-1969
Folder
136 1
Teenagers
1970-1971
136 2
Twins
1950-1961
136 3
Venereal Disease
1921-1971
136 4
War: Children in Wartime
1942-1946
136 5
War: Divorce
1943-1946
136 6
War: Motives for War
1918, 1939
136 7
War: Population as a Factor in Post War Reconstruction
1942
Folders
136 8-9
War: War and the Family
1940-1954
Folder
136 10
War: Wartime Marriages
1942-1950
136 11
War: Wartime Morale
1942
136 12
War: Women in the War Industry
1942-1945
136 13
Widows
1959-1968
136 14
Working Wives
1952-1960
136 15
YMCA-Downtown Los Angeles, CA
1957

Series V.:  American Institute of Family Relations, 1929-1977Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Sub-Series 1.: Correspondence
1929-1977
Sub-Sub-Series 1.: Alphabetical Correspondence
(7 document boxes)
Regarding lectures, workshops, personnel, counseling policies, publicity, and a search for a new director in 1976.
1929-1977
Box Folder
137 1
Administrative Council
1956-1959
137 2
American Broadcasting Company
1956-1958
137 3
American League of Counselors and Applied Psychologists
1952-1953
137 4
Anderson, Floyd
1961-1963
137 5
Anderson, Wayne
1961
137 6
Application for Counseling Correspondence Course
1956-1957
137 7
Arrangement for Radio Interviews and Contracts
1938-1957
Folders
137 8-10
Association of Marriage Counselors
1930-1970
Folder
138 1
Beesley, Kenneth
1961
138 2
Belmont Books
1962-1967
138 3
Blake, Howard
1948-1949
Folders
138 4-6
Board of Trustees
1936-1977
Folder
138 7
Buehler, Charlotte
1948
138 8
Canadian War Services, Inc.
1944
138 9
Cumings, Edgar
1961
138 10
Diamond, David
1949-1954
139 1
Felix Peano Bequest
1948-1967
139 2
Fishbein, Morris
1946-1954
139 3
Goldwyn Girls
1940s
139 4
Gosney, E.S.
1934-1937
139 5
Green, John
1961
139 6
Green, Stanford
1961
139 7
Guidance Counseling—Student Division
1971-1972
139 8
Institute of Family Relations in the City of New York, Inc.
1929-1937
139 9
Kimmell, Susan
1952-1958
139 10
Klemer, Richard
1953-1972
140 1
Lectures: Berkeley, CA
1937-1938
140 2
Lectures: Kearney State College, NE
1967
140 3
Lectures: Kent State University
1967
140 4
Lectures: Long Beach, CA
1932-1938
140 5
Lectures: Miscellaneous
1934-1938
Folders
140 6-7
Lectures: Occidental College, CA
1933, 1940
Folder
140 8
Lectures: Orange, CA
1931-1932
140 9
Lectures: Public Appearances-Pasadena, CA
1932-1933
140 10
Lectures: Religious Education in the Family-Baptist Churches
1931-1933
140 11
Lectures: Sacramento, CA
1934-1935
140 12
Lectures: San Bernadino, CA
1933-1934
Folders
140 13-14
Lectures: San Diego, CA
1932-1937
Folder
140 15
Lectures: San Jose, CA
1934-1935
140 16
Lectures: San Pedro, CA
1931-1933
140 17
Lectures: Santa Ana, CA
1931-1934
140 18
Lectures: Santa Monica, CA
1932
140 19
Lectures: South Pasadena, CA
1933
140 20
Lectures: University of Omaha, NE
1952
140 21
Lectures: University of Southern California
1934
140 22
Lectures: YMCA
1931-1932
141 1
Legislative Fight to Regulate Marriage Counseling
1955-1962
141 2
Letters from Readers of Miscellaneous Newspapers and Magazines
1938-1939
141 3
Loen, Ernest
1961
141 4
Loen Project
1961
141 5
Manson, Morse
1961
Folders
141 6-7
Memoranda, General
1932-1977
Folder
141 8
Memoranda, News and Notes
1941-1944
141 9
Memoranda, Policy and Procedures
1947-1955
141 10
Nasser and Bien
1950-1951
142 1
National Women’s Relief Society
1938
142 2
Phillips, Clinton
1967-1971
Folders
142 3-4
Postmaster General of the United States versus Paul Popenoe: Letters of Support
1942
Folder
142 5
Postmaster General of the United States versus Paul Popenoe: Letters Pertaining to the case
1942-1945
142 6
Richardson, Sullivan
1961
142 7
Rue, James
1971-1972
Folders
143 1-2
Sand, Alan—Agent
1961-1968
143 3-5
Schoolfield, R.F.
1970-1972
Folder
143 6
Shlien, John
1961
143 7
Watson, Goodwin
1961
143 8
Willen, John
1955
Folders
143 9-10
Wilson, Donald
1956-1968
Folder
143 11
Yorke, Emerson
1960-1961
Sub-Sub-Series 2.: Chronological Correspondence
(1.5 document boxes)
Regarding general policies, lectures, and personnel.
1929-1976
Box Folders
144 1-7
November 1929-December 1959
145 1-4
January 1960-November 1976
Sub-Series 2.: Case Histories
(21 document boxes)
Arranged alphabetically by the first letters of the last names of the patient. Includes Johnson Test Scores, notes by the counselors, correspondence, and case summaries. Researchers must sign an agreement to respect the confidentiality of the personal data in these boxes.
1934-1965
Box Folders
145 5-20
Ab-Andr
1954-1957
146 1-38
Ant-Bes
1944-1957
147 1-36
Bie-Cah
1945-1957
148 1-28
Cal-Com
1945-1957
149 1-23
Co-Dan
1954-1956
150 1-34
Dav-El
1944-1958
151 1-25
En-Fou
1945-1957
152 1-40
Fra-Gra
1954-1956
153 1-20
Gre-Hall
1954-1957
154 1-40
Halli-Holz
1954-1958
155 1-41
Hop-Kl
1953-1957
156 1-31
Kn-Lee
1945-1957
157 1-26
Leh-McD
1944-1965
158 1-28
McG-Mor
1943-1957
159 1-33
Mor-Nav
1934-1958
160 1-34
Ne-Pasa
1954-1957
161 1-48
Pasc-Ross
1944-1965
162 1-40
Row-Spe
1953-1957
163 1-38
Spr-Tip
1954-1957
164 1-34
To-Web
1953-1957
165 1-29
Webe-Wil
1954-1957
166 1-20
Wils-Zw
1954-1957
Sub-Series 3.: Radio Programs
(2 document boxes)
Arranged alphabetically. Regarding the role of the American Institute of Family Relations in counseling marriage and family problems. Includes interviews of Paul Popenoe by radio show hosts and scripts for numerous guest spots and radio series featuring him as the director of the institute.
1932-1960
Box Folder
166 21
The American Way
1947
166 22
Breakfast Club Memory Time
1953
166 23
Citizens Forum
1944
166 24
Edgar Bergen Hour
1955
166 25
Family Life Series
1949-1952
166 26
Family Relations
1941
166 27
Giving Your Baby a Good Start- Sex Guidance for Youth Program, Series
1946
166 28
Growth in Understanding in Parents
1940
166 29
Headline Celebrities
1946
166 30
The Home versus V.D.
1947
166 31
How We Can Strengthen the Home
1946
Folders
167 1-2
I Want to Be Happy Series
1944
Folder
167 3
I Was There
1945
167 4
In My Opinion
1948
167 5
Interesting Pasadena
1952
167 6
Love and Marriage
1953
167 7
Marriage Break-Ups
1946
167 8
Marriage, For Better or Worse
1948
167 9
Meet Another American
1941
167 10
Meet the Missus, Earl Carroll’s Theater Restaurant
1948
167 11
The Next Forty Years
1960
167 12
Paging the Judge
1953
167 13
Paging the News
1955
167 14
Paradise Boy
1960
167 15
Parent-Youth Progam
1949
167 16
People Are Funny
1945
167 17
Planned Parenthood at Tucson, AZ
1948
167 18
Radio Stations: KFAC
1950
167 19
Radio Stations: KHJ
1950, 1953
167 20
Radio Stations: KNX
1947
167 21
Radio Stations: KOA
1939
167 22
Radio Stations: KPAS
1945
167 23
Radio Stations: KPPC
1940
167 24
Radio Stations: KTSW
1952
167 25
Radio Stations: KWKW
1954
167 26
Radio Stations: WLOL
undated
167 27
Radio Stations: WNAB
1941
167 28
Report to the People, Marriage Tests
1936
167 29
Rocky Mountain Radio Counsel, Metropolitan Marriage Clinics
1940
167 30
Should the Interlocutory Decree be Abolished
1954
168 1
Successful Family Living
1941
168 2
Tell It to the Judge
1953
168 3
They Tell Me …
1946
168 4
Views on Vogue and Values
undated
168 5
Voices of Experience
1932-1933
168 6
We the People
1940-1944
168 7
What Price Recreation
1946
168 8
What Shall I Do?
1942
168 9
What’s your Problem? Series
1942
168 10
When I Grow Up
1950
168 11
Woman’s World
1960
168 12
Your Family Counselor
1957
168 13
Youth Talks it Over
1945-1946
Sub-Series 4.: Television Programs
(3 document boxes)
Arranged alphabetically. Syndicated programs featuring Paul Popenoe, as director of the institute, solving personal problems. Includes correspondence, advertising, contracts, and scripts for the series “Divorce Hearing.” There are also scripts for other series. There are also some letters from viewers of “House Party” which often had Paul Popenoe as a guest.
1950-1962
Box Folders
168 14-16
American Institute of Family Relations, Show Scripts
1951-1953
Folder
169 1
Divorce Hearing: Advertising
1958-1960
169 2
Divorce Hearing: Correspondence: Letters From Viewers
1958-1962
169 3
Divorce Hearing: Correspondence: Miscellaneous
1958-1961
169 4
Divorce Hearing: Correspondence: Spears, Harry—Agent
1957-1959
Folders
169 5-6
Divorce Hearing: Scripts
1957-1959
169 7-8
House Party: Letters from Viewers
January 1950-February 1951
170 1-3
House Party: Letters from Viewers
March 1951-December 1953
170 4-6
Today’s World: Scripts
1951-1952
Folder
170 7
You and Your Marriage: Scripts
1956
Folders
171 1-3
You and Your Marriage: Scripts
1956-1957
Sub-Series 5.: Records
1930-2008
Box
202
Articles of incorporation
March 9, 1972
202
AIFR literature in the 50s and 60s
1937-1960
202
AIFR relations
1965-1969
202
AIFR - Paul Popenoe matis
1930-2008
202
Bills and reciepts
1979-1980
202
Board of trustee materials
1975-1983
202
Clerical handbook
1970-1979
202
Counseling materials
1960-1969
202
Johnson temperment analysis
1941-1944
202
Literature handouts
1930-1965
202
Newsletters - "Family Life" bi-monthly service bulletin of the AIFR
1977-1982
202
Policies manual
January 1974
202
Summer workshop complete notes
1968

Series VI.:  Manuscripts, 1901-1963Return to Top

(3 document boxes)

Arranged alphabetically. Drafts of articles and books written by Paul Popenoe.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
171 4
Algeria “The Mode” As a Winter Resort; Can Not Compare with Southern California
1913
171 5
Among the Moslims
1913
171 6
Arabia And California: Some Considerations of the Date Industry
1913
171 7
Arabic Interpretations of Songs of Birds
1913
171 8
Arabic Zoology
1913
171 9
Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking
1936
171 10
California for Dates
1912
Folders
171 11-12
“Can this Marriage Be Saved,”
1960
Folder
172 1
The Childless Marriage
(unpublished)
circa 1930s
172 2
The City of Caliphs
1912
172 3
Costa Rica: A Contented Republic
1901
172 4
Counseling Course
1934-1935
172 5
Crushes
1938
172 6
The Dates of Mendali
1912
172 7
Defeating the Fifth Column
1941
Folders
172 8-9
Desert Life in California
undated
Folder
172 10
Diana of the Jungles
undated
172 11
Dinner Time in Baghdad
1912
172 12
Durand
1907
172 13
Enlarging the Menu: Work of Sub-Tropical Horticulturalists in the Propagation of New Fruits
undated
Fertility and Sterility:
Box
195
1. Significance
1928-1950
195
2. Normal Mechanism
1929-1957
195
3. Causes in Men
1927-1939
195
4. Causes in Women
1927-1939
195
5. Causes in Marriage
1926
195
6. Diagnosis
1930-1936
195
7. Treatment (A)
1930-1935
195
8. Treatment (B)
1930-1935
196
9-18. Treatment (chapter 12 missing)
1930-1935
196
22. Prevention
1926-1935
196
23. Social Aspects
1935-1941
196
Appendix. Ectopic Pregnancy
1925-1935
196
Appendix. Still Births
1937-1941
196
Appendix I. Note on Terms
1935-1945
Folder
172 14
The Fleeting Years
1907
172 15
Flora at the Sahara Desert
1912
172 16
For the Coffee Drinker
undated
172 17
Freshman Class
undated
172 18
The Gardens of Southern France
1907
172 19
Getting Date Palm for California
1915
172 20
Great Britain on Two Dollars a Day
1912
172 21
Heredity and Oranges
undated
172 22
Hindu Gastronomy
1912
172 23
A Horticultural Pilgrimage to Scharanpur
1912
172 24
How Loveable are you?
1952
172 25
How to Make Love
1948
172 26
A Hunter’s Yarn
1907
173 1
In the Sahara
1913
173 2
The Influence of Poetry
1907
173 3
Inheritance of Mental Traits
undated
173 4
Italian Migration to Southern California
undated
173 5
Italian Table Talk
undated
173 6
A Journey to the Western Zab
undated
173 7
The Kei Apple
undated
173 8
Khalasa of a Hosa Date
1915
173 9
L’Aignon….Rostand
1907
173 10
Life in the Garden of Allah: Experience of Biskra, Accuracy of Mr. Hitchen’s Play
1912
173 11
Looking Forward
1942
173 12
Looting the Oases
1912
173 13
Lowell as a Writer of Prose
undated
173 14
Marbouts of the Sahara
1912
173 15
Mango Culture in India
1912
Marriage:
Box
199
Marriage, education, and traits
1916-1951
199
Appendices
1930-1939
199
1. are you old enough to marry?
1919-1939
199
2. what kind of wife do you want?
1928-1940
199
3. where will you find such a person?
1936-1938
199
4. and what will she think of you?
1939
199
5. remember: you do not understand women
undated
199
6. what will our parents say
undated
199
7. some eugenics for your own use
1938-1939
199
8. beware of widows- but more of divorcees
1930-1939
199
9. and much more of romance
1937-1939
199
10. can this be love/ proposals by women
1919-1939
199
12. the betrothal period
1932-1939
199
13. must you dig up the past
June 27, 1939
199
14. can you afford it
1936-1939
199
15. the pre-marital exam
1936-1939
199
16. the wedding
1938
199
17. the beginnings of married life
1934
199
Case studies in proposal
1937
Folder
173 16
Mount Wilson
1903
201
National Unity - Dr. P. Popenoe
1931-1932
Folder
173 17
Nephelium Mutabile
1913
173 18
The New Resurrection Man
undated
173 19
A Night with Uncle Rufus
undated
173 20
Notes from Honolulu
undated
173 21
Notes from the Mediterranean
1913
173 22
On Life in a College House
undated
173 23
Old Ehrenburg
undated
173 24
On the Riviera
1912
173 25
The Present Crisis in France
1913
173 26
The Profanity Myth
1923
173 27
Real Meaning of Mohammedan Resistance to the Attempted Italian Conquest of Tripoli and Cyrenaica
1912
173 28
Religion in the Sahara
1912
173 29
Religious Societies in the Sahara
1912
173 30
A Scientist in Agriculture
1912
173 31
Semail Valley of Oman
1913
Folders
173 32-33
Sex, Love, and Marriage
1963
Folder
173 34
Some Suggestions from Algeria
1912
174 1
Successful Farming
1948-1949
174 2
This Business of Divorce
1946
174 3
To Baghdad for Date Palm
1913
174 4
A Tour in Four Languages
1912
174 5
Toward a Greater American
1954
174 6
Travel in Algeria
1912
174 7
Travel in Southeastern Spain
1912
202
Unpublished materials (miscellaneous manuscripts)
1959-1999
Folder
174 8
Up in the Persian Gulf
1913
174 9
Up the Tigris River
1913
174 10
Village Life in India
1913
174 11
The Wealth of Ornuz
1912
174 12
The Wheel Barrow Lady
1907
174 13
The Wit of the Arabs
1913
174 14
With the Natives of Muscat
1913

Series VII.:  Personal Information, 1874-1991Return to Top

(4.5 document boxes)

Arranged alphabetically by type of material. Includes biographical files, journals, photographs, and scrapbook material. The photographs are of the Popenoe family and growing dates (one of the family businesses).

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
202
Articles and newspaper clippings regarding Paul Popenoe
1930-2016
Folder
174 15
Biographical Files: Popenoe, David
1967-1974
174 16
Biographical Files: Popenoe, Fred Oliver
1934
174 17
Biographical Files: Popenoe, Joshua
1970-1971
Folders
174 18-19
Biographical Files: Popenoe, Paul Bowman
1886-1991
Folder
174 20
Biographical Files: Popenoe, Wilson
1913-1975
202
Correspondence
1915-2012
Folder
174 21
Journals
1898-1899
175 1
Journals
1901-1921
202
Obituaries
1978-1979
202
Paul Popenoe - Dates
1972-2016
Folder
175 2
Photographs: American Institute of Family Relations
1953, 1964
175 3
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Algeria
1912
175 4
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Baghdad
1912-1913
Folders
175 5-6
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Basra
1913
175 7-10
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Biskra
1912-1913
Folder
176 1
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Biskra
1913
176 2
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: California
1912-1920s
176 3
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Costa Rica
1901
176 4
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Ecuador
1921
Folders
176 5-9
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Lantern Slides-unidentified
1912-1913
177 1-2
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Lantern Slides-unidentified
1912-1913
Folder
177 3
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Mexico
1912
177 4
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Oman
1912
177 5
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Peru
1921
177 6
Photographs: Date Growing Around the World: Spain
1913
177 7
Photographs: Gosney, E.S.
1964
177 8
Photographs: Popenoe, Betty
1925-1940
177 9
Photographs: Popenoe, Herbert
1915
177 10
Photographs: Popenoe, Marian
undated
177 11
Photographs: Popenoe, Oliver
1960s
177 12
Photographs: Popenoe, Paul Bowman and Betty Popenoe
1920s-1973
177 13
Photographs: Popenoe, Paul Bowman and Family
1905-1930s
177 14
Photographs: Popenoe, Paul Bowman: Baby Album
1888-1894
177 15
Photographs: Popenoe, Paul Bowman: General
1906-1954
177 16
Photographs: Popenoe, Paul Bowman: Publicity
1940s-1970s
178 1
Photographs: Popenoe, Paul: Trip Around the World
1912-1914
178 2
Photographs: Popenoe, Paul: World War I
1917
Folders
178 3-7
Scrapbook Material
1874-1936

Series VIII.:  Books, 1913-1973Return to Top

(3 document boxes)

Arranged alphabetically by title. Written by Paul Popenoe.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folders
179 1-2
Applied Eugenics
1918-1933
179 3-4
Can This Marriage Be Saved?
1960
202
Can This Marriage Be Saved? by the editors of Ladies Home Journal with Margery D. Rosen
1994
Folder
179 5
Childbirth Education; Hungerford, Mary Jane
(forward by Paul Popenoe)
1972
179 6
The Child’s Heredity
1929
179 7
The Church Looks at Family Life
1964
179 8
Collected Papers on Eugenic Sterilization in California
1931
180 1
The Conservation of the Family
1926
180 2
Date Growing the Old and New Worlds
1913
180 3
The Date Palm
1973
180 4
Des Kinder Erbschaft
includes letter and review
1930
180 5
Divorce – 17 ways to avoid it
1950
180 6
How to Marry Someone You Can Live with all Your Life
(forward by Paul Popenoe)
1964
180 7
Manual of Tropical and Sub-Tropical Fruits
1920
181 1
Marriage Before and After
1943
Folders
181 2-3
Marriage Is What You Make It
1959, 1970
181 4-5
Modern Marriage
1925, 1947
Folder
181 6
Practical Applications of Heredity
1930
181 7
Population Problems of the Time of Augustus; Carey, Henry
(forward by Paul Popenoe)
1933
181 8
Problems of Human Reproduction
1926
202
Seven Secrets of a Happy Marriage by Margery D. Rosen and the editors of Ladies' Home Journal (forward by David Popenoe)
2002
Folder
181 9
Sex, Love and Marriage
1963
181 10
Sterilization for Human Betterment
1931
181 11
The Story of Sex
1932

Series IX.:  Printed Material, 1908-1973Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Sub-Series 1.: Pamphlets and Leaflets
(.5 document boxes)
Arranged alphabetically. Written by Paul Popenoe regarding counseling marriage, sex, and family.
1936-1972
Box Folder
182 1
Aggressiveness Can Wreck Romance
1945
182 2
Are Virgins Out of Date
1946
182 3
Are You Husband Hunting
1938
182 4
Are You Preparing to do Maturity and Old Age Counseling
1946
182 5
Are You the Perfect Husband?
1938
182 6
Are You the Perfect Wife?
1938
182 7
Betrothal
1936
182 8
Biology and Education
1941
182 9
Boss Him and Lose Him
1943
182 10
Building Sex into Your Life
1959
182 11
Don’t Try to Make Him Jealous
1940
182 12
Eight Cures for Man Haters
1939
182 13
Four Secrets Men Won’t Tell
1941
182 14
Frigid Wives of Reno
1938
182 15
Home Study Course in Social Hygiene, Lesson 6
1944
182 16
How Can Boy Meet Girl
1939
182 17
How Do You Know You’re In Love?
1946
182 18
How to Make Love
1946
182 19
Husbands Need Not Be Inadequate
1945
182 20
I Married a Stingy Husband
1945
182 21
La Virginite Est Elle Demodee
1946
182 22
Love After 40
1940
182 23
Marital Counseling with Special References to Frigidity
1937
182 24
Marriage
1945
182 25
Moods Can Mar Your Marriage
1945
200
Paul Popenoe's publications
1925-1945
Folder
182 26
The Practice of Marriage Counseling
1952
182 27
Preparing for Marriage
1938
182 28
Sex Aspects of Marriage
1940
182 29
Sex, Happiness, or Tragedy
1952
182 30
Sexual Inadequacy of the Male
1946
182 31
Smart Wives Don’t Have to Nag
1939
182 32
Should Cousins Marry?
1937
182 33
Social Life for High School Girls and Boys
1937
182 34
Take Your Wife Into Partnership
1938
182 35
Techniques of Marriage and Family Counseling
1972
182 36
Those Engagement Revelations
1938
182 37
To Be Popular- Be Your Age
1940
182 38
The Truth About Sterility
1939
182 39
Twenty-Eight Years of Sterilization in California
1939
182 40
What Every Woman Wants
1937
182 41
Why Are Father’s Failures?
1938
182 42
Why Don’t You Make Him Propose?
1941
182 43
Will You Keep Growing After Marriage
1941
182 44
Woman And Extra Marital Relationships
undated
182 45
You Can Fall in Love If You Want To
1941
Sub-Series 2.: Periodicals
(7.5 document boxes)
Arranged alphabetically by periodical title. They contain articles by or about Paul Popenoe.
1908-1973
Box Folder
182 46
Allied Youth: Teenager and Car =Trouble
1958
182 47
American Journal of Sociology: Fecundity of Families Dependent on Charity
1934
182 48
American Sociological Review: Mate Selection
1937
182 49
A Study of 738 Elopements
1938
182 50
Arrowhead: The Avocado—The Food of the Future
1914
182 51
Awake: Unselfishness—The Key to a Successful Marriage
1969
182 52
The Battle Creek Idea: A Battle Creek Experience
1924
182 53
Birth Control Review: Birth Control and Eugenics
1917
182 54
Birth Control Review: Eugenic Sterilization
1933
182 55
California Garden: Sahara Desert Plant Life
1912
182 56
California Parent-Teacher: Children Must Take Third Place
1939
182 57
Canadian Welfare: Marriage Counseling
1947
183 1
Catholic Digest: Abortion in Japan
1971
183 2
Child Family Digest: Premarital Experience No Test of Adjustment
1956
183 3
Church of the Brethren Leader for All Church Workers: The Role of Man in the Modern Family
1961
183 4
Church of the Brethren Leader for All Church Workers: The Role of the Woman in the Modern Family
1962
183 5
The Clubwoman: The Conservation of the Family
1928
183 6
The Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty: What Better Place to Meet?
1933
183 7
The Date Palm: A Trip to West India Plantations
1913
183 and 202
Desert: An Unexpected Commission
1963
Folder
183 9
Eugenasia: Dr. Paul Popenoe
1942
183 10
Eugenical News: Should Bachelors and Fathers Get the Same Pay?
1943
Folders
183 11-12
Family Life: American Institute of Family Relations Bulletin
1945-1948
184 1-3
Family Life: American Institute of Family Relations Bulletin
1949-1954
185 1-4
Family Life: American Institute of Family Relations Bulletin
1955-1962
186 1-4
Family Life: American Institute of Family Relations Bulletin
1963-1970
Folder
187 1
Family Life: American Institute of Family Relations Bulletin
1971-1973
187 2
Family Weekly: When a Husband is Unfaithful
1964
187 3
Forum and Century: Sterilization: A Debate
1935
187 4
Good Health: An Arab Narcotic
1923
187 5
Good Health: The Art of Eating in the Street
1923
187 6
Good Health: As To Coconuts
1923
187 7
Good Health: The Chewing Gum Tree
1923
187 8
Good Health: Desert Water Holes
1923
187 9
Good Health: Do You Know About Pinole?
1922
187 10
Good Health: Early Opposition to Coffee
1922
187 11
Good Health: Health and Civilization
1922
187 12
Good Health: Life in the Tropics
1923
187 13
Good Health: Meal Time Among the Arabs
1924
187 14
Good Health: Some Unusual Nuts
1924
187 15
Health: First Aid for Unhappy Marriages
1946
187 16
High School Service, The American Red Cross: In the Moon of Ramazan
1926
187 17
High School Service, The American Red Cross: In the Valley of Samail
1926
187 18
Home Life: Danger: Men (And Women) at Work
1973
187 19
Home Life: Mental Health and the Family
1971
187 20
Home Life: Teamwork in the Home
1964
187 21
Human Sexuality: Fraudulent “New Mentality,”
1973
188 1
Journal of Heredity: Edited By Paul Popenoe
1914-1915, 1917
188 2
Journal of Home Economics: Cooperation in Family Relations
1934
188 3
Journal of Social Hygiene: A Family Consultation Service
1931
188 4
Journal of Social Hygiene: Some Effects of a State Law Requiring Delay Before a Marriage License is Issued
1929
203
Ladies' Home Journal: The Man Who Saves Marriages
September 1960
Folder
188 5
Literary Digest: Odd Foreign Drinks
1923
188 6
Marriage: Are There Enough Good Husbands to Go Around?
1969
188 7
Marriage: The Engagement
1969
188 8
Marriage: The Feminized Mate
1971
188 9
Marriage: The Real Thing
1969
188 10
Marriage: Teen Age Sex and Marriage
1967
188 11
Marriage: Where Can I Find a Good Counselor
1973
202
Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality: The Fraudulent "New Morality"
April 1973
Folder
188 12
Motive: Marriage Is a Good Idea, If…
1948
188 13
National Geographic Magazine: Costa Rica, The Land of the Banana
1922
188 14
Opportunity: The Verdict of Common Sense
1923
188 15
Out West: Date Culture in Southern California
1913
188 16
Outdoor Life: Swans Islands
1909
188 17
The Pacific Garden: For The Coffee Drinker
1908
188 18
The Parent Problem: Institute of Family Relations
1931
188 19
Parents: Do Your Children Know You Love Them
1965
188 20
Parents: Making Marriage Work
1967
188 21
Perfect Home Magazine: The Focus of Family Living
1958
188 22
Psychology: Bringing up Father
1962
188 23
Sexual Adjustments in Marriage
1962
188 24
Rexall Magazine: Dr. Popenoe’s Recipes for Happy Marriage
1945
188 25
School and Society: Eugenics and College Education
1917
188 26
Scientific American: Are You a Paranoid?
1938
189 1
Scientific Monthly: Back to Methusela
1927
189 2
Scientific Monthly: The Date Palm in Antiquity
1924
189 3
Scientific Monthly: The Marriage of Kin
1923
189 4
Senior Citizen: The Soviet Family
1963
189 5
Social Forces: Where are the Marriageable Men?
1935
189 6
St. Nicholas: “Uncle Sam’s” Adventurers
1921
189 7
Table Talk: The Stomach of Barbary
1912
189 8
Talks: Are Husbands or Wives to Blame for Broken Homes
1948
189 9
Town Meeting: Have Women Failed as Homemakers
1947
189 10
The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review: The Nurse and Family Relations
1934
189 11
Vegetarian News Digest: Noteworthy People
1950
189 12
Western Journal of Surgery, Obstetrics, and Gynecology: Marital Counseling with Special Reference to Frigidity
1937
189 13
Your Health: How the U.S. Army Fights Syphilis
1941
189 14
Your Life: Modern Marriage
1942
189 15
Your Life: Popenoe, Marriage Mender for Millions
1951
189 16
Your Success: Make Love a Habit
1944
189 17
Youth Leaders: Education for Marriage
1948

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Eugenics.
  • Family relationships.
  • Family--Social aspects.
  • Heredity.
  • Marriage.
  • Public health.
  • Radio addresses, debates, etc.
  • Television programs.

Occupations

  • Authors, American.