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Encyclopedia > Eugenics Record Office

The Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York was a center for eugenics and human heredity research in the first half of the twentieth century. Both its founder, Charles Benedict Davenport, and its director, Harry H. Laughlin were major contributors to eugenic thought and policy in the United States (and in many ways, Germany). Founded in 1910, was financed primarily by Mary Harriman (widow of railroad baron E. H. Harriman) and then the Carnegie Institution until 1939. In 1944 it closed, and its records were transferred to the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota.


External links

  • Eugenics Archive (http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/) - features many materials from the ERO archives.
  • American Philosophical Society ERO index (http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/e/ero.htm) - index of ERO archives.

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Eugenics Record Office - definition of Eugenics Record Office in Encyclopedia (178 words)
The Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York was a center for eugenics and human heredity research in the first half of the twentieth century.
Both its founder, Charles Benedict Davenport, and its director, Harry H. Laughlin were major contributors to eugenic thought and policy in the United States (and in many ways, Germany).
In 1944 it closed, and its records were transferred to the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota.
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