Library Collections: Visual Still: Enlargement

Images of four people, three women and a man, beneath caption reading "Menaces to Society."



Visual Still Information

Title: Menaces To Society
From: Eugenicists Would Improve Human Stock By Blotting Out Blood Taints
Original caption: CLASSED AS A HIGH GRADE IMBECILE, THIS GIRL EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD POSSESSES THE BRAIN OF A CHILD OF SEVEN.
ALTHOUGH NINETEENT YEARS OLD THIS GIRL IS ONLY SEVEN YEARS OLD MENTALLY
PHYSICALLY A WOMEN BETWEEN 25 & 30 YEARS, MENTALLY SHE IS ONLY SIX. SHE HAS A FEEBLE-MINDED SISTER
THIS MAN. THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD, HAS ONLY THE MENTALITY OF A CHILD OF EIGHT AND ONE-HALF YEARS
Creator: n/a
Date: February 18, 1912
Publication: New-York Daily Tribune
Source: Library of Congress