Trait Files documents

02 immigration and insanity 4 thumb
08 an epileptic and her sixteen childreen 4 thumb
02 individual analysis card 2 1 thumb
06 e.w 1 thumb
19 racial types in the us 1 thumb
03 why they come pearson's 7 thumb
02 godall to ero 2 thumb
03 n family single trait sheets 3 thumb
01 c.d 12 thumb
09 average number of children 9 thumb
01 criminality data set 5 thumb
08 hd kings park thumb
00 insanity no 7 thumb
02 w.s 33 thumb
00 south africa thumb
03 p family pedigree thumb
03 the jews in poland 10 thumb
13 unnamed family history 02 2 thumb
12 pedigree 02 1 thumb
08 percentage of foreign born maps 7 thumb

The Eugenics Record Office was first and foremost a “repository and clearing house” for eugenics data. Through the “systematic” study of human heredity, the Office amassed an incredible quantity of files, forms, and assorted clipping related to a wide range of human traits. The bulk of this material comprised the “Trait Files,” a massive and rigidly organized index of human traits that sought to sort and rank human beings according to thousands of different attributes, from profession (“Teachers,” “Missionaries”) to mental ability (“Idiocy,” “Feeblemindedness”) to race (“Negro-Chinaman,” “Mulattoes”) and personality (“Sense of Humor, “Leadership”). But this data didn’t just sit around in the ERO’s archives. It was actively used to provide “scientific” justifications for a wide range of policies, from immigration restriction to sterilization and anti-miscegenation, that were shaped by leaders of the Eugenics Record Office.