A flier advertising a screening of a notorious eugenics film in Chicago, illustrated here with salacious images of jazz-age squalor and sin.
This handbill promotes a special showing of “Are you Fit to Marry?,” the 1927 adaptation of the American eugenics film, “The Black Stork.” Produced by Quality Amusement Corporation, the featured film embodies the deep fear of infant deformity that gripped America in the early 20th Century.

Provocative, this graphic flyer warns teens to avoid “eugenic risks,” such as premarital sex and other “temptations of the Jazz Age.”

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