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• Harry H. Laughlin, Superintendent of Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor; President, American Eugenics Society, 1928-29
• Harry H. Laughlin, Superintendent of Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor; President, American Eugenics Society 1928-29
• Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor
• Harry Olson, Board of Directors, American Eugenics Society; Chief Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago
• Flashing light exhibit at Fitter Families Contests
• Eugenics Exhibit: Differential birth rates indicated by flashing light display (at Michigan Fitter Family Contest)
• Guinea pigs showing color inheritance, Fitter Families exhibit
• "Flashing light sign used with small exhibits," Fitter Families Contest
• Flashing light sign exhibit, Fitter Families Contest
• "Mendel's Theatre" showing inheritance of hair color, demonstrated by Leon Fradley Whitney
• Fitter Families exhibit and examination building, Kansas State Free Fair, Topeka
• "Eugenic and Health Exhibit," Fitter Families exhibit and examination building, Kansas State Free Fair
• Fitter Families exhibit and examination building, Kansas State Free Fair, Topeka
• Kansas State Free Fair, Topeka, Fitter Families Contest examining staff and "sweepstakes" winning family
• Fitter Families exhibit/exam tent, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, Massachusetts
• Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, Massachusetts, boys looking at flashing light sign
• Examining staff for the Fitter Families Contest at Michigan State Fair. Leon F. Whitney (center) and Mary T. Watts (standing, third from right).
• Mary T. Watts, American Eugenics Society, Chairman of the Education Committee and founder of the Fitter Families Contests
• Mary T. Watts, founder of the Fitter Families Contest with superintendent of the contest at the Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA
• Florence Brown Sherbon and Mary T. Watts, founders of the Fitter Families Contest, with Leon F. Whitney at Kansas State Free Fair
• Fitter Families Contest at Michigan State Fair
• Average Family Winner, Fitter Family Contest, Eastern States Exposition
• "Large family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA (1925)
• "Small family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA (1925)
• 4-H Girls Club, "Winners in preliminary contest with examiners" (including Mary T. Watts), Anderson County, IA
• "Large family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Texas State Fair (1925)
• "Best couple" with trophy, Fitter Families Contest, Texas State Fair (1925)
• "Large family" honorable mention, Fitter Families Contest, Kansas State Free Fair, Topeka
• “Yea, I have a goodly heritage,” Fitter Families Contest medal given to families scoring B+ or better
• "Medium family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Kansas State Free Fair (1927)
• "Four generations at Fitter Families Contest"
• Student report and Eugenics Record Office Family Tree Folder on "sinisterity" (left-handedness)
• Student study of inheritance of musical ability, including pedigree
• "Family-tree folder: Players of musical instruments"
• "Single-trait sheet: Musical ability"
• "Family-tree folder: Dressmakers"
• "Single-trait sheet: Skill in needlework"
• Student study of inheritance of an interest in carpentry
• Questions for a study of heredity in twins
• A.L. Treadwell, Vassar College, letter to Eugenics Record Office, about student pedigree of deafness and insanity ("queerness")
• Field worker report on dementia praecox (schizophrenia) at King's Park Hospital, by Laura Teitelbaum
• Eugenics Record Office, field-worker's monthly report
• "What Chance Have You To Marry?," by Fred Kelly, Ladies Home Journal
• Study of mate preferences
• Married vs. unmarried life preferences
• C. Davenport letter to W.G. Stonesifer, about four brothers marrying four sisters, including newspaper article
• Karl Pearson review of R.H. Johnson paper submitted to Nature
• Student report on the heredity of longevity, example 1
• Student report on the heredity of longevity, example 2
• Student report on the heredity of longevity, example 3
• Family tree folder recording inheritance of longevity
• "Cousin Marriage," student report
• "Consanguinity," student report, example 1
• "Consanguinity," student report, example 2
• "Human pedigrees detailing inheritance of specific biological traits: Inheritance of musical talent," Eugenics Section, American Breeders Association
• "Family History of Louise Homer: Inheritance of musical talent" pedigree, family history, and newspaper photograph
• "Heredity Criminality and its Certain Cure," by Warren Foster, Pearson's Magazine
• Case study of Buster, 10-month old "offspring of crime and insanity," cover letter and photos documenting his rehabilitation over 10 years
• Form for studying inheritance of pauperism and criminality
• Student exercise on Jukes family
• A. Estabrook letter to H. Laughlin about Jukes pedigree
• "Posterity of Ada Juke: Analysis of pedigree of inheritance of shiftlessness," (partial)
• Family tree folder recording inheritance of mathematical and musical ability
• Family tree folder recording inheritance of asthma
• "A family with cancer. Mother and six children died of cancer," pedigree and family history of stomach cancer
• British House of Commons Bill on Inebriates, inscribed to H. Laughlin
• Family-tree folder recording inheritance of allergies, longevity, civic leadership, and other traits
• Single-trait sheet recording inheritance of "civic leadership, combined with religious leadership"
• Single-trait sheet recording inheritance of "allergies (eczema, asthma, skin disruptions, etc.)"
• Single-trait sheet recording inheritance of longevity
• "Data collected by Miss Devitt, May and Nov. 1915," Eugenics Records Office fieldworker
• "Jukes: Information collected by M. T. Curial" for A.H. Estabrook on Wisconsin branch of the Jukes family
• "Cold Spring Harbor: Meeting of Field Workers, June 23, 1915," notes including comments by C. Davenport, H. Laughlin, and A Rosanoff
• "Large family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA (1925): Fitter families Examination
• "Large family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA (1925): National intelligence tests
• "Large family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA (1925): Abridged record of family traits
• "Average family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA (1925): family examination summary
• "Small family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA (1925): family examination summary
• "Large family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Texas State Fair (1925): family examination summary
• "Large family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Texas State Fair (1925): individual examinations
• "Large family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Texas State Fair (1925): Abridged record of family traits
• "Best couple," Fitter Families Contest, Texas State Fair (1925): family summary examination
• "Medium family" winner, Fitter Families Contest, Kansas State Free Fair (1927): family examination summary
• Fitter Families contestants at Georgia State Fair, Savannah
• "Fitter families examination, Kansas Free Fair, Topeka: Nervous and mental history
• "Floor plan Eugenics Building at Kansas Free Fair - Topeka
• "Fitter Families for Future Firesides: A report of the Eugenics Department of the Kansas Free Fair, 1920-1924"
• "School Principal and Family Take Fair Top Honors," Savannah Press
• Eugenics registry of the Race Betterment Foundation, Battle Creek, MI
• Individual analysis card, Daniel Boone
• Individual analysis card, example 1
• Individual analysis card, example 2
• Individual analysis card, example 3
• Student's eugenic case study (about sense of humor)
• Eugenics tree logo
• Blindness pedigree from the records of the Perkins Institution
• "The Direct Cost of the Socially Inadequate to New York State"
• Franklin College's response to eugenics education survey
• "The factors of evolution in man", course offered by Samuel Holmes at University of California, Berkeley
• Response on behalf of W.T. Doran to Harry E. Laughlin, about eugenics instruction survey
• University of Idaho's response to eugenics education survey
• "Eugenics seeks to improve the natural, physical, mental and tempermental qualities of the human family," Eugenics Record Office
• Eugenics Research Association 16th Annual Meeting
• Charles Davenport letter to Lucien Howe, about prizes for eugenic studies of Nordic races
• Congenital cataract pedigree
• Buck vs. Bell Supreme Court Decision
• "An act to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to prevention of hereditary blindness", New York State Senate
• "Harvard scientist wants married couples bonded," by Sam Smith, Boston Sunday Post
• "Reasons for a study of hereditary blindness," report to American Medical Association
• "The control by law of hereditary blindness"
• "The Howe Laboratory of Opthalmology," Eugenical News
• National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness
• Albinism pedigree by Charles Davenport
• Lamellar cataract pedigree by London Medical Office
• Hemophilia pedigree by Dr. Bess Lloyd
• Boat builder pedigree
• Kallikak family pedigree
• Pedigree of the Counts Tolstoy
• Pedigree of the W-- family of Indiana, a degenerate family in which one member was sterilized
• "Sample pedigree chart showing the manner of construction"
• Lucien Howe letter to Harry Laughlin about Mendel's Centennial
• Lucien Howe response to Charles Davenport and Harry Laughlin, about sterilization, marriage and blindness
• Harry Laughlin response to Lucien Howe about immigration and blindness prevention
• AMA/Eugenics Record Office survey about hereditary blindness
• Eugenics field workers meeting notes about hereditary behavior
• "Delinquent girls tested by the Binet scale," by Dr. Louise Morrow and Dr. Olga Bridgman, Reprint from The Training School
• Stanford-Binet Test, Feeblemindedness
• "The Defectives," about marriage restriction
• "Exhibit of work and educational campaign for juvenile mental defectives"
• "The burden of the feebleminded"
• "The right to be well-born," by Franklin Kirkbride
• "The Nams: feeble-minded as country dwellers," by Charles Davenport
• "Public provision for the feeble-minded," by Edward Johnstone
• "Letchworth Village: the newest state institution for the feeble-minded and epileptic," by Charles Little
• "Wild men within commuting distance," by William Dobbin, New York Tribune
• "Family living like barbarians found in New York Hills," by Margery Rex,
• Pedigree for feeblemindedness
• "The increase of criminals, mental defectives, epileptics and degenerates," Report of the Commission
• Epilepsy references
• H.F. Robbins letter to Eugenics Laboratory about marriage advice
• "Supplementary report on mentality of feebleminded children," case study by E. Bayers and F.H. Miller.
• Arthur H. Estabrook
• Lathrop Brown speech to House of Representatives about immigration
• "Abstract of the report on immigration and insanity," by The Immigration Commission
• "An appeal to friends of Scandinavian immigration"
• "Brains and the immigrant," by Melville Herskovits, The Nation
• Degenerate family pedigree
• Plant cell drawings (Reverse of image #393)
• W.M. Hays letter to Charles Davenport about inheritance in poultry
• American Breeders Association report on new eugenics section

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