Exhibit created by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene advocating for eugenically-informed immigration legislation, reproduced in Hand Book of the Mental Hygiene Movement and Exhibit: Illustrated (1913).
Illustration from the Judge magazine depicting the trial of Charles Julius Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield. The illustration shows how testimony from psychiatrists (the "expert testimony" label on the branding iron) pronounce Guiteau sane and culpable for the murder of Garfield, opening up the path to execution. The illustration erases the dissenting testimony of psychiatrists for the defense, including W.W. Godding, Edward Spitzka, and James Kiernan, who were convinced that Guiteau was not sane.
Photograph of immigrants walking up the stairway into Ellis Island's Registry Hall. Image focuses on one man, facing the camera, with a hat, suit, and suitcase.
