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4. “Baby’s Picture Is Always Treasured”: Eugenics and the Reproduction of Whiteness in the Family Photograph Album
Shawn Michelle Smith
Description: American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture
American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture
To twentieth-century readers accustomed to the now ubiquitous nature of “baby’s photograph,” R.H.E.’s observation about the stupidity of these images seems either shocking or wonderfully perverse...
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Shawn Michelle Smith
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 1999 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.113-135
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00342.5
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23316
Chapter subject tags:Racism--United States--History--19th centuryPortrait photography--United States--History--19th centurySocial classes--United States--History--19th centuryFamily archives--United States--19th centuryDaguerreotype--United States--History--19th centuryEugenics--United States--History--19th century

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4. “Baby’s Picture Is Always Treasured”: Eugenics and the Reproduction of Whiteness in the Family Photograph Album