eugenics

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Margaret Sanger (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • B-59 said:
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    Margaret Sanger (LOC)

Wm. Chas. Flynn (LOC)

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  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    William Charles Flynn was a perfect "eugenic baby"--winner in at least fourteen Better Baby contests sponsored by eugenically-oriented groups. He was in the news at this tender age (37 months in March 1915), because his mother found him a good eugenic match for a future wife: 17-month-old "perfect" baby Alene Calvert Houck, herself the winner of six better baby contests. Both children had scored a perfect 100 on measurements intended to set an ideal. "The mothers are convinced that fate has thrown their children together for some great purpose, but they have agreed that they will not resort to any form of coercion in shaping the future of their children." news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19150327&... trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/60066021 The Trove link includes the respective physical measurements of William and Alene. Best I can figure, he did not, in fact, marry Miss Houck.
  • Melinda Young Stuart said:
    He looks like a tough guy in the making and may have been a handful to any woman he ended up with! -- Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)
  • prima seadiva said:
    Fascinating but the basis of eugenics was very creepy and disturbing particularly after viewing the Child Labor set.
  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    prima seadiva Indeed! Also, looking again at that loincloth, or whatever he's wearing. Doesn't look to be big enough or folded right to be a diaper. Weird little detail.
  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Wonder if this is the same William C. Flynn born in 1912. Could be, the news stories about him were dated at Los Angeles. If so, his short life probably didn't fulfill the expectations of his "perfect" early days. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18187278

Margaret Sanger (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • B-59 said:
    "Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger In January 1916 she was placed on trial before the United States court in New York on the charge of having sent through the mails indecent literature (about birth control), see e.g. The Evening herald., January 25, 1916, Page 4 (with photo of her and her sons).
  • Kristi (LOC P&P) said:
    B-59: Thank you for providing the background on Sanger as well as the reason she might have been in the news at the time. We will add some details to this record as well as to the other photos of Sanger in Flickr.
  • Art Siegel said:
    An account (with photo) of her appearance in Federal Court in New York for her trial, at which she was to represent herself, ran in the New York Press, 1/19/1916.
    fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/...
    see also
    Mrs. Margaret Sanger (LOC)