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Carrie Buck standing in a park, date unknown AUTHOR'S COLLECTION | Charles B. Davenport AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
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Charles B. Davenport AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY | Eugenics Research Office [ERO] copy of the September 1910 edition of Archiv für Rassen- und Gesellschafts-Biologie, featuring articles by German eugenics founding father Alfred Ploetz, Ernst Rüdin (who later became president of the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations), and Roderick Plate (who would become a demographic and statistical expert for Nazi killer Adolf Eichmann). AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
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Eugenics, March 1929 edition, featuring articles by Virginia racist Walter Plecker and birth control advocate Margaret Sanger. VERMONT STATE PUBLIC RECORDS DIVISION | Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen at Buchenwald with a warm hat he claimed he never wore. NATIONAL ARCHIVES |
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Nazi Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick propagandizing for forced sterilization in Eugenical News, March-April 1934. AUTHOR'S COLLECTION | Lavish praise for and photos of "Verschuer's Institute" in Eugenical News, June 1936. AUTHOR'S COLLECTION |
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Ernst Rüdin, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PSYCHIATRIE, | Eugenics Record Office files. COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ARCHIVE |
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Eugenics Record Office files. COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ARCHIVE | Harry H. Laughlin leads a training session with field workers at the ERO, 1913. COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ARCHIVE |
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Harry H. Laughlin and Charles B. Davenport pose with ERO field workers, 1914. COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ARCHIVE | ERO's copy of German eugenicist Erwin Baur photograph. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
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First Race Betterment Conference Banquet, 1914. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
Francis Galton, father of eugenics. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON ARCHIVES |
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Gregor Mendel, discoverer of the principles of heredity. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
Chicago Tribune report of Dr. Harry Haiselden's infant euthanasia, November 1915. COURTESY OF MARTIN PERNICK |
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"You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought, and particularly by the work of the Human Betterment Foundation. I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people." VERMONT STATE PUBLIC RECORDS DIVISION |
Human Betterment Foundation Annual Report for 1935 citing a letter from board member C. M. Goethe to racist eugenicist E. S. Gosney, bragging: "You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought, and particularly by the work of the Human Betterment Foundation. I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people." VERMONT STATE PUBLIC RECORDS DIVISION |
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Harry H. Laughlin PICKLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY |
Harry H. Laughlin AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
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Enthusiastic essay about Nazi breeding experiments in Journal of Heredity, 1942. AUTHOR'S COLLECTION |
Auschwitz's murderous doctor, Josef Mengele. AUSCHWITZ ARCHIV |
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Code list for IBM Hollerith punch card system used in the Jamaica Race Crossing Study, 1928. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
Margaret Sanger PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION |
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Movie industry ad for The Black Stork, April 1917. COURTESY OF MARTIN PERNICK |
Exhibit: "Some people are born to be a burden on the rest," circa 1926. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
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Exhibit poster: "Marriages, Fit and Unfit." AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
Exhibit poster showing dwellings of the so-called Tribe of Ishmael. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY |
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Francis Galton's original scrap of paper inventing the term eugenics UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON ARCHIVES |
Nazi eugenicist Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer examining twins; his assistant, Josef Mengele, continued the experiments at Auschwitz. MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ARCHIV |
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Nazi eugenicist Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer examining twins; his assistant, Josef Mengele, continued the experiments at Auschwitz. MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ARCHIV |
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