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Marina Amaral

9 Mar, 11 tweets, 4 min read

[Thread] These images document a time when those with "undesirable genetic traits" were sterilized or killed in order to 'cleanse' society.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1926.

Photographs of 'human races,' organized to suggest a common trait shared by 'primitive' Australians, Africans, and Neanderthals.

Photographs of 'Indian Dwarfism' from the Eugenics Society in 1912.

A family of children born with rickets is photographed by the Eugenics Society in 1912.

A photograph of a child with a cleft lip, taken to demonstrate the type of child that should be kept from breeding. London, 1912.

Source: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

A photograph from the Eugenics Society showing a family with the 'lobster claw' deformity, meant as a demonstration of a hereditary defect in 1912.

A mental institution in Illinois euthanized its patients by deliberately infecting them with tuberculosis.

In the 20th century, intellectual disability was called “feeblemindedness” and it was separated into categories:

Photos taken by the Eugenics Society, circa 1912.

nosmag.org/mental-age-the…

Early supporters of eugenics believed people inherited mental illness, criminal tendencies and even poverty, and that these conditions could be bred out of the gene pool.

history.com/topics/germany…

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