Vivian Buck and foster mother Alice Dobbs in Charlottesville, taken by A.H. Estabrook the day before the Buck v. Bell trial in Virginia
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This photograph was taken on the eve of the initial trial of Buck v Bell in Virginia. Mrs. Dobbs appear to be holding a coin believed to be used as a test for alertness or mental acuity. Vivian appears to be looking elsewhere. It may have ben on the strength of this test that Arthur Estabrook concluded that she "showed backwardness."
- ID: 11255
- Source: DNALC.EA