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Carrie Buck standing in a park, date unknown

AUTHOR'S COLLECTION

Charles B. Davenport

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

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

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

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

Ernst Rüdin, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics.

MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PSYCHIATRIE,
HISTORISCHES ARCHIV DER KLINIK

Eugenics Record Office files.

COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ARCHIVE

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

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

First Race Betterment Conference Banquet, 1914.

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Francis Galton, father of eugenics.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON ARCHIVES

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

"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

Harry H. Laughlin

PICKLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Harry H. Laughlin

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Enthusiastic essay about Nazi breeding experiments in Journal of Heredity, 1942.

AUTHOR'S COLLECTION

Auschwitz's murderous doctor, Josef Mengele.

AUSCHWITZ ARCHIV

Code list for IBM Hollerith punch card system used in the Jamaica Race Crossing Study, 1928.

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Margaret Sanger

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION

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

Exhibit poster: "Marriages, Fit and Unfit."

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Exhibit poster showing dwellings of the so-called Tribe of Ishmael.

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

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

Nazi eugenicist Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer examining twins; his assistant, Josef Mengele, continued the experiments at Auschwitz.

MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ARCHIV