eugenics

There's a lecture series named for her, at the American Genetic Association's annual symposium: www.theaga.org/2010/key_lecture.php She also published a report in 1915 titled "Feeble-Minded Citizens in Pennsylvania," based on eugenic pedigrees of a population in rural Pennsylvania. books.google.com/books?id=x0biAAAAMAAJ

Key was very active in the American Eugenics Society as well. Eugenics....what a different time. We have an interesting click! photography changes everything piece by Carol Squiers that examines and critiques the role of photography in eugenics that I think is worth a read: click.si.edu/Story.aspx?story=762 Thanks for sharing the information, Penny. Best, Catherine Shteynberg Smithsonian Institution Archives

Sociologist Katharine Bement Davis (1861?-1935), New York CIty Corrections Commissioner beginning in 1914. www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/kbd/kbdframe.html

Appointed to her position by the newly-elected Mayor of New York, John Puroy Mitchel. Another Bain/LOC portrait of Katherine Davis:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Bement_Davis

pennylrichardsca: Thanks for the further information on Dr. Davis. We will add to the record when we update.

Dr. Davis assumed her position as NYC's Commissioner of Corrections on January 1, 1914, and the Bain News Agency immediately circulated photos of her on the job:

Sweet like a poisoned apple.

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thanks for sharing!

Such a sympathetic face.

She doesn't look like a radical, but she was for her time..maybe that direct look at the camera was a statement. I love the way she's done her hair. :)