War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, Expanded Edition (50 page)

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Movie industry ad for
The Black Stork,
April 1917.
COURTESY OF MARTIN PERNICK

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Image from
The Black Stork
depicting a euthanized baby floating to] esus.
“ARE YO U
FIT TO MARRY” PRESERVATION FUNDED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HISTORICAL FILM COLLECTION; COURTESY OF MARTIN PERNICK AND JOHN ALLEN

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Charles
B.
Davenport
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

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Harry H. Laughlin
PICKLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Charles B. Davenport 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

Eugenics Record Office files.
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ARCHIVE

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

Exhibit: “Some people are born to be a burden on the rest,” circa 1926.

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Exhibit poster: “Marriages, Fit and Unfit.”
AMERICAN

ERO copy of the September 1910 edition of
Archiv for 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

Carrie Buck standing in a park, date unknown.
AUTHOR’S COLLECTION

Code list for IBM Hollerith punch card system used in the ]amaica Race Crossing Study, 1928.
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

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Margaret Sanger
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION

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ERO’s copy of German eugenicist Erwin Baur photograph.
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

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Ernst Riidin, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics.
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PLANCK INSTITUT FUR PYSCHIATRIE, HISTORISCHES ARCHIV DER KLINIK