File:Ezra Seymour Gosney.jpg

Original caption: "STUDENT OF STERILIZATION: Long interested in philanthropy, and in race-improvement, Mr. E. S. Gosney initiated in 1925 a study of the actual effects of the California law during the fifteen years it had been in operation. This study has continued since that time, and has made available more facts about the effects of such a law than are elsewhere to be found. To provide for the continuance of this work Mr. Gosney has incorporated and endowed the Human Betterment Foundation."

Picture scanned from Paul B. Popenoe, "The Progress of Eugenic Sterilization," Journal of Heredity, 25:1 (1934), Figure 5.

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This image appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 12 July 2005 (see archives).