The day before Buck vs. Bell, Paul Lombardo

Interviewee: Paul Lombardo. The day before the Virginia case, Arthur Estabrook photographed Carrie and Emma on a bench located at this spot in the Virginia Colony. (DNAi Location: Chronicle > Trial of Carrie Buck > Players > Carrie Buck > A cold day in November )

On a November day, a cold day like today, Carrie Buck and her mother were brought outside so that Arthur Estabrook could take a picture of them. Estabrook was a, by then, famous psychologist from the Cold Spring Harbor Eugenics Record Office, and this was the day before the trial which would decide that Carrie Buck would be sterilized. Estabrook brought them outside to make a record of that moment, and shot them on a park bench in the middle of the Colony.

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