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Archives and Online Exhibition: "Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement" (DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Cold Spring Harbor, NY) 

Forwarded to STHC-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH.

Russell Johnson


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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 13:35:51 -0500
From: "Harry M. Marks, H-SCI-MED-TECH" <smtedit@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
Subject: FYI: Cold Spring Harbor eugenics site
Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and 
Technology" <H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU>

Michael Kenny <kenny@sfu.ca> writes:

Greetings:

I draw list-member's attention to an extraordinary site now on line via the
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It focuses on the eugenics movement and
makes extensive use of the materials in the records of the Eugenics Record
Office (ERO) established by Charles Davenport, administered by Harry
Laughlin, and serving from its foundation in 1911 to its closing in 1940 as
a major clearing-house for information and agitation relating to eugenics.

This very well-produced site contains, among other things, specially
written essays on aspects of eugenics accompanied by an internal
search-engine. It also contains a massive documentary visual record of
materials scanned into the archive: photographs, diagrams, genealogies
(with personal identifiers removed), and primary source materials such as
full copies of state sterilization and anti-miscegenation statutes,
pertinent Supreme Court decisions, etc.

Highly recommended, and found at  http://vector.cshl.org/eugenics.html

                                                MGK

Michael G. Kenny
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
Canada
ph:   604-291-4270
fax:  604-292-5799
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Russell A. Johnson        rjohnson@library.ucla.edu
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