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Eugenics.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Breeding and management of farm stock / / by Frank Sherman Peer

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064924875]
Identifier: 2401
Scope and content

Typescript draft of a book, with corrections in pencil. The text (which is incomplete, ending in mid-sentence) includes chapters on horses, sheep, pigs, and also "Men and women" and "Girls and boys," including a discussion of relations between the sexes and an argument against women's liberation.

Dates: 1914.

Cornell University collection of white supremacist materials

 Collection — Manuscript box ? - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924131958724]
Identifier: 8949
Content Description The Cornell University collection of white supremacist materials is an artificial collection which spans from the 19th to the 21st century. The collection contains printed pamphlets and broadsides created by proponents of white supremacy and racist ideologies, including "Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan", "Eugenics in relation to the New Family and the law on Racial Integrity" by the Bureau of Vital Statistics (1924), and a printed sheet titled "Food for Thought: for those who have read the...
Dates: 1924 - 1960

E. Eugene Barker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-156
Abstract

E. Eugene Barker was an Assistant Professor of Plant Breeding at Cornell University. This collection contains notes, sketches, lab reports, as well as miscellaneous photographs, clippings, and letters.

Dates: 1907-1918, 1953-1958.

Livingston Farrand papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-5-7
Abstract The Livingston Farrand Papers consist of correspondence, office files, reports, letters of transmittal, notices of appointment to committees, scrapbooks, cross reference sheets, clippings, diplomas, and certificates deriving from his presidency of Cornell University from 1921 to 1937. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, pertaining largely to the routine administration of the President's Office and the University. Subjects include student and faculty issues, student health,...
Dates: 1921-1939.

subRosa pamphlets

 Collection — Manuscript box 89 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113545481]
Identifier: 8239m
Scope and content

Pamphlets produced by subRosa, including Can you see us now? (2002), Cultures of eugenics (revised 3rd edition, 2005), Welcome to Expo EmmaGenics (undated), Cultures of technology (2002), and Biopower and organ transplantation (2003).

Dates: 2002-2005.