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Illustration shows Anthony Comstock as a monk thwarting shameless displays of excessive flesh, whether that of women, horses, or dogs, with a "Jane Doe Warrant".

Print shows Uncle Sam dancing through a minefield of political issues, such as "Catholic Demands for part of School Funds", "Single Tax Fad", "Populism", "Prohibition Foolishness", "Women's Rights Nonsense", and the "Free Silver Mania", which all…

Photograph shows Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) who was found guilty of violating the state penal code by operating the first birth control clinic on Amboy Street in Brooklyn in February 1917

Photograph shows Fania Mindell (left), who worked with Margaret Sanger at the first birth control clinic in the United States, Harold Hersey (1893-1956) (center), an editor and publisher and Marian Bloom (1891-1975) (right).

Official Title: The Statutes at Large and Proclamations, of the United States of America, from March 1871 to March 1873, and Treaties and Postal Conventions Arranged in Chronological Order and carefully collated with the Originals at Washington. With…

Photograph shows Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966), an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse with a child. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)