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"Pedigrees of Prejudice": Eugenics and the Vermont State School for Feebleminded Children
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Collection: Pedigrees of Inmates at the Vermont School for Feebleminded Children, 1925
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Pedigree 08 - Female
This pedigree describes a woman who was committed to the Vermont State School for Feebleminded Children in 1922 when she was 22 years old. Her family was the subject of a broader family pedigree. According to the eugenic fieldworker, sexual…
Pedigree 07 - Male
This pedigree features a man with microcephaly who had bounced between various institutions throughout his first 23 years. Because Vermont did not have its own institution for "feebleminded children" until 1915, the Burlington Overseer of the Poor…
Pedigree 06- Female
Admitted to the Vermont State School for Feeble-Minded Children when she was 8 years old, the child described in this pedigree likely came to the attention of state authorities when her mother died. Her defects are listed as "Masturbation.…
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