A photograph album from 1935 showing the work of the Child Welfare Clinic, a project of the Los Angeles-based All Nations Foundation, then one of the largest non-governmental social welfare organizations in Los Angeles. The album also documents a five-year clinical study funded by an anonymous donor, during which the Child Welfare Clinic prescribed what was likely experimental "endocrine treatment" to some of the children treated at the Clinic.

The album is accompanied by two letters written by Robert A. McKibben, then superintendent of the All Nations Foundation, and Everett W. Duvall, director of the Child Welfare Clinic, addressed to an anonymous donor who provided financial support for the project. In the second letter, Everett DuVall writes: "The children pictured on the following pages were selected from the more than six hundred whose lives you have touched through four years of clinic service you have made possible. Activities such as those illustrated were a part of the individual plan for each member of All Nations Foundation studied by the Child Welfare Clinic."

The album is filled with 127 black-and-white photographs (most 4.5 x 2.75") of the children who were served by the organization. A caption on one of the first few pages reads, "That the All Nations Foundation is well named is shown in the pictures on this and succeeding pages. Many races and nationalities are represented by the parents of the girls and boys studied by the Child Welfare Clinic."

The unnumbered album pages show the children engaged in activities such as camping, hiking, performances, and play. There are also many images with typed captions explaining the background of the children and the Clinic's assessment of the child's prospects, along with broad generalizations about them based on race. For example, on one page there are two images of young men, one labeled "Turkish­ Spanish" and the other "American Negro". The caption reads: "Both of these boys wish to become radio entertainers." Under the image of the Turkish-Spanish youth, it further states: "President of the student body of his junior high school, this boy has potential ability which is now being developed. He sings, plays guitar, and has written a song which has been sent to a publisher." Under the photo of the other boy, the caption reads: "Always in trouble Lonnie 'clowns' his way through and is never as happy when he is the center of attention. Without much intelligence and limited talent, his ambition is a liability rather than an asset."

Another page includes two photographs of Japanese boys. "These Japanese brothers are both leaders in the club programs in which they participate. Japanese children are usually well behaved but do have difficulty in being both American and Japanese at the same time."

While most of the album shows the children engaged in activities, there is evidence that the Clinic was providing psychological and medical treatments. For example, on another page, two teenage boys are pictured who received "endocrine treatment" through the clinic. One of the young men suffered from baldness and the other lacked energy. A caption reads: "Known to his clubmates as the 'horizontal kid' because he seldom showed enough energy to engage in regular activities, this boy was so pleased with results obtained through endocrine treatment that he wrote back for 'more pills' throughout his nine months service at the Civilian Conservation Camp."

A few pages later, two younger boys are pictured, one with a caption noting that when the thyroid gland doesn't secrete adequately, mental development is subnormal. Another says "malfunctioning of certain of the sex glands is causing this boy to develop an effeminate body and abnormal personality traits. He is now having difficulties in his relationships with other boys and girls."

On the final two pages of the album, there are images of 12 boys in the "chipmunks" program: "Discovery by the Clinic that there were a number of eight-year-old boys of very superior mentality - the average mental age in better than ten years - led to the formation of a special club for them."

Young women are also pictured in the album. Next to four images of two sisters, the caption reads: "Having a pretty older sister is very hard when misshapen, protruding teeth so deform your mouth that other children nickname you 'horse teeth.'"