eugenics

20 photos tagged eugenics, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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B.G. Lewis, Dr. Kath. Davis, Dr. J.A. Campbell, Warden P.A. Mallon (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • Kilted Cowboy said:
    Dr. Katherine Davis, Commissioner of Corrections after Feb 1914.
  • Richard Norton said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Bement_Davis
  • Wystan said:
    More Bain/LOC photos of Corrections Commissioner Katharine Davis in action: She took office on January 1, 1914, and these photos were taken soon afterward.
  • Wystan said:
    Bain/LOC photos of Dr. Katharine Davis, posted earlier:
  • Wystan said:
    LOC: Some sources on the internet spell her first name "Katherine," while others, including the peerless Wikipedia, go with "Katharine." You are the authority with responsibility to sort the matter out. An anxious nation waits upon your decision. Loyal citizens trust that you will not fail us in our hour of need.

Margaret Sanger (LOC)

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  • 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)

Virgina June Nay (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    At six months, Virginia June Nay of Battle Creek MI won in the youngest category at a Better Babies Contest of 1914, a eugenics-inspired event, "because she was already teething and her fontanel had closed quickly. Her appearance, which was pleasant, was not a factor in her success."--Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee, The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon (University of Michigan Press 2004): p. 29. This photo was featured in the Proceedings of the National Conference on Race Betterment (vol. 1), 1914: p. 620. books.google.com/books?id=XAjiAAAAMAAJ
  • Wystan said:
    Bain/LOC photo of Alvin Kingsley of Battle Creek, Michigan -- another prizewinner: