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A child seen through the bars of several cribs.



Visual Still Information

Title: Christmas In Purgatory, Page 36
From: Christmas In Purgatory: A Photographic Essay On Mental Retardation
Original caption: "Cast upon this globe without physical strength or innate ideas, incapable in himself of obeying the fundamental laws of this nature which call him to the supreme place in the universe, it is only in the heart of society that man can attain the pre-eminent position which is his natural destiny. With-out the aid of civilization he would be one of the feeblest and least intelligent of animals. . ."
Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
Creator: Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan (photographer)
Date: 1974
Source: Available at selected libraries