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Eugenics Record Office

The Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor was established by Charles Davenport. (DNAi location: Chronicle > Threat of the Unfit > founders)

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  • ID: 15740
  • Source: DNALC.DNAi

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Harry Laughlin and Charles Davenport

15723. Harry Laughlin and Charles Davenport

Harry Laughlin and Charles Davenport outside the Eugenics Record Office, about 1913.

  • ID: 15723
  • Source: DNAi
Chicken coops

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.

  • ID: 15735
  • Source: DNAi
Charles Davenport, about 1929

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.

  • ID: 15737
  • Source: DNAi
Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor (1)

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)

  • ID: 11591
  • Source: EA
Charles B. Davenport, Director, Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Department of Genetics, and Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor

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

  • ID: 11593
  • Source: EA
Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor (2)

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

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

  • ID: 11594
  • Source: EA
Harry Laughlin and Charles Davenport, ca. 1913

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.

  • ID: 15785
  • Source: DNAi
Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor

10003. Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor

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

  • ID: 10003
  • Source: EA
Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor (signed)

11592. Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor (signed)

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

  • ID: 11592
  • Source: EA
The origin of eugenics, James Watson

15426. The origin of eugenics, James Watson

James Watson talks about the origin of eugenics.

  • ID: 15426
  • Source: DNAi
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