Poverty and Degeneracy
76 objects illustrate this topic:

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Little Italy, showing life in lower Manhattan around the turn of the 20th century (#1510)
Mixed race marriage, "Indian Kate" (#930)
O.F. Lewis (NY Prison Association) letter to A.H. Estabrook, congratulating him on the publication of The Jukes in 1915 (10/26/1916) (#1449)
Pedigree of the tribe of Ishmael (#720)
Pedigree of the W-- family of Indiana, a degenerate family in which one member was sterilized (#293)
People (April 1931) news items: disputed quote by President Herbert Hoover, Senate tesitmony on birth control, use of eye color inheritance in courts, multiple pages (#1614)
"Poorhouse Type of Source of Defectives," pedigree of epilepsy and feeblemindedness (C. Davenport and D. Weeks) (#1696)
"Posterity of Ada Juke: Analysis of pedigree of inheritance of shiftlessness," (partial) (#103)
Prison mug shot of Edgar (V428) and corresponding entry in The Jukes in 1915, by A.H. Estabrook (photo laid in copy of R. Dugdale's The Jukes), multiple pages (#1366)
Prison mug shot of V265 and corresponding entry in Estabrook's typescript "The Jukes Data" (photo laid in Estabrook's copy of R. Dugdale's The Jukes), multiple pages (#1283)
Prison mug shot of VI153 and corresponding entry in Estabrook's typescript "The Jukes Data" (photo laid in Estabrook's copy of R. Dugdale's The Jukes), multiple pages (#1282)