Created by: International Congress of Eugenics (3rd : 1932 : New York, N.Y.)
Last Updated: 2025-12-02
Collection Details
This collection contains scanned images of items, including documents, photographs, and glass lantern slides, held in the Harry H. Laughlin Papers in the Special Collections and University Archives at Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University in Kirksville, MO. Laughlin was an American eugenicist and the superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY, from 1910-1939. Pansy (Bowen) Laughlin, his widow, donated this collection and his personal library to the university after his death.
Photo of a poster showing various studies and examples of the sensitivity of the preschool child to the principles of artistic harmony and unity. Taken at the Third International Congress of Eugenics, New York City, Aug....
Subject:
Eugenics--Congresses, Heredity, Human, and International Congress of Eugenics (3rd : 1932 : New York, N.Y.)
Creator:
International Congress of Eugenics (3rd : 1932 : New York, N.Y.)
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Lantern slide showing how two homozygous brown-eyed parents will have 100% homozygous brown-eyed children.
Subject:
Eugenics and Heredity, Human
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Lantern slide showing how one homozygous brown-eyed parent and one heterozygous brown-eyed parent will have 50% homozygous brown-eyed and 50% heterozygous brown-eyed children.
Subject:
Eugenics and Heredity, Human
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Lantern slide showing how one homozygous brown-eye parent and one homozygous blue-eyed parent will have 100% heterozygous brown-eyed children.
Subject:
Eugenics and Heredity, Human
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Lantern slide showing how two heterozygous brown-eyed parents will have 25% homozygous brown-eyed, 50% heterozygous brown-eyed, and 25% homozygous blue-eyed children.
Subject:
Eugenics and Heredity, Human
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Lantern slide showing how one heterozygous brown-eyed parent and one homozygous blue-eyed parent will have 50% heterozygous brown-eyed and 50% homozygous blue-eyed children.
Subject:
Eugenics and Heredity, Human
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Lantern slide showing how two homozygous blue-eyed parents will have 100% homozygous blue-eyed children.
Subject:
Eugenics and Heredity, Human
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Lantern slide showing the family tree of a woman sterilized by the state of Maine. The reason given by the state for the sterilization is hereditary feeblemindedness. The family tree shows five generations with various members...
Subject:
Eugenics and Involuntary sterilization
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Photograph of the staff and members of the Department of Genetics, Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, on May 12, 1934. Names listed on back of photo.
Subject:
Eugenics and Heredity, Human
Creator:
Sunden Studio, Huntington, Long Island, NY
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Photo of Harry Laughlin at the November 21, 1922, hearing before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, United States Congress, in Washington, DC. Laughlin testified as the committee's...
Subject:
Eugenics, Heredity, Human, and United States--Emigration and immigration
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
