A photograph from the Eugenics Society showing a family with the “lobster claw” deformity, meant as a demonstration of a hereditary defect, 1912. (25/45)

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A photograph from the Eugenics Society showing a family with the "lobster claw" deformity, meant as a demonstration of a hereditary defect, 1912.

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