Harry Laughlin and Charles Davenport

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15740. Eugenics Record Office

The Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor was established by Charles Davenport.

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15735. Chicken coops

Chicken coops on the grounds of the Station for Experimental Evolution (currently Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), reflecting the interests of director Charles Davenport, 1908.

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15785. Harry Laughlin and Charles Davenport, ca. 1913

In 1910, Davenport obtained funds from Mrs. E.H. Harriman to found a Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at Cold Spring Harbor.

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15737. Charles Davenport, about 1929

Davenport published the classical description of the inheritance of eye color in 1907 and also did creditable studies of the genetics of albinism and neurofibromatosis.

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15741. Eugenics Record Office class

A class assembled in 1913 studying to become ERO field workers. Harry Laughlin is in the back row at the far left.

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15431. Charles Davenport's motivation for eugenics, James Watson

James Watson talks about Charles Davenport's motivation for eugenics.

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15787. Cover of the 1910 publication Eugenics, by Charles Davenport

Davenport was a prolific writer, publishing an estimated 450 articles -- many devoted to eugenics.

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11591. Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor (1)

Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor (1)

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11593. Charles B. Davenport, Director, Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Department of Genetics, and Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor

Charles B. Davenport, Director, Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Department of Genetics, and Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor

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11594. Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor (2)

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