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 family tree of ten generations of Abraham Lincoln's family with the subtitle "Analysis of Inborn Qualities of Near-Kin of Abraham Lincoln." 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)
Glass lantern slide with "Relative Social Inadequacy of the Several Nativity Groups and Immigrant Races in the United States" above the title. Stated under the title: "Including feeblemindedness, insanity, crime, epilepsy,...
Subject:
Eugenics
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Photo of a model house and yard with instructions for a task that purports to judge a person's artistic sense depending on how the items are arranged. 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)
Photo of a display about a report of a first-hand study on race descent of inmates found in 242 state and federal penal institutions in the United States on October 1, 1931. Taken at the Third International Congress of...
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)
Glass lantern slide of a chart showing the number of eugenical sterilizations in the U.S. from March 9, 1907 to January 1, 1935.
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)
Photo of displays used by Harry Laughlin at the November 21, 1922, hearing before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House of Representatives, United States Congress, in Washington, DC. The displays include...
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)
Photo of displays used by Harry Laughlin at the November 21, 1922, hearing before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House of Representatives, United States Congress, in Washington, DC. The displays include...
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)
Glass lantern slide with a chart showing the intelligence of white and foreign-born men. It is based on the psychological examination of 94,004 white men selected at random, but pro-rata by states, in the United States Army,...
Subject:
Eugenics
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943. and Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Photo of a display with four detailed maps of the United States showing which states use eugenical sterilization along with posters promoting it. 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)
Glass lantern slide of a map of the United States showing states with and without sterilization laws or bills as of October 1913. In those states with laws, motives behind them are given.
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)
