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Hilda Herrick Noyes, The Oneida Community Experiment in Stirpiculture, no date

Essay written about the stirpiculture experiment including statistics

Tags: 19th century, eugenics, oneida, Oneida Community

Hilda Herrick Noyes, Weights of Oneida Community Babies, 1/1/1871

Researcher transcription of the names, dates of birth, and weight and size of the first half of the 58 live born Oneida Community stirpiculture babies…

Tags: 19th century, eugenics, oneida, Oneida Community

James C, Jackson, Physician in chief at Our Home on the Hillside, How to beget and rear beautiful children, 1872

Booklet by the Physician-in-Chief of “Our Home on the Hillside,” in Dansville, NY, on how to breed children similarly to livestock, to breed out…

Tags: 19th century, eugenics

The institution in Danville, NY called “Our Home on the Hillside”, “Our Home On The Hillside” brochure, no date

This brochure aimed to recruit “invalids” and “the sick” to be treated under “the Psycho-Hygienic method” pioneered by Dr. James C. Jackson. It…

Tags: eugenics, oneida

Joseph R. Hixson, New York Times, “Forecasts From the Womb”, 1/19/1967

A full-page article from the January 19, 1967 edition of the New York Times that describes the then-new procedure of amniocentesis and its potential…

Tags: eugenics

James C. Jackson MD, How to cure drunkards, 1868

Booklet by the Physician-in-Chief of “Our Home on the Hillside,” the Largest Hygienic Infirmary in the World in Dansville, NY, on how to cure…

Tags: eugenics, oneida

Fred P. Graham, New York Times, The Law: “Sterilization or Jail”, 5/29/1966

A clipping of an article from the New York Times 5/29/1966 written by Fred P. Graham. The article gives a brief history of sterilization of…

Tags: eugenics

Cass Canfield, chair of publisher Harper & Row, on behalf of Planned Parenthood Association of the Mohawk Valley Incorporated’s Madison County chapter, Planned Parenthood fundraising letter May 25, 1970, 5/25/1970

A letter from publisher Cass Canfield on behalf of Planned Parenthood Association of the Mohawk Valley Inc, Madison Co. Chapter to a Mr. Hubbard.…

Tags: eugenics