Phrenology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to an unidentified recipient, 1 January 1849
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0060/4
Scope and Contents
This is an autograph letter signed sent by Scottish lawyer and Phrenological Society spokesman George Combe, dated 10 May 1851, Edinburgh. Unidentified recipient ("My dear Sir"). The letter is discussing subscriptions to the society, and German theology. It partly reads: "I duly received your letter of the 24th April and regret that I am able only to muster two subscribers in addition to myself. This is the very focus of Evangelical faith, & your views are in favour with few; but I hope...
Dates:
1 January 1849
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to Dr Robert Carruthers, Inverness Courier editor, 27 February 1851
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/12
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to Inverness Courier editor Dr Robert Carruthers, regarding the attribution of an Edinburgh Review article on "The Ethics of Phrenology" to "Mr. A. Smith, Banff", when the author might in fact be Sir William Hamilton: "In your notice of the late Mr. A. Smith, Banff, you mention that he wrote "The Ethics of Phrenology" an article in the Edinburgh Review. As...
Dates:
27 February 1851
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to his agents, 19 June 1840
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/9
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to his agents, requesting remittance of the previous years account, and for a parcel to be sent to Professor Benjamin Silliman of New Haven. Westminster Bridge, 19 June 1840.Begins: "Gentlemen! | As I am on my way to Edinburgh, from the United States, I shall be obliged by your informing me, here, whether you have remitted or otherways paid the balance due to me on last years account, due on 4th. June,...
Dates:
19 June 1840
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to Joseph C. Neal, 11 March 1839
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/8
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to Joseph C. Neal, Marshall House [i.e. Marshall House Hotel Philadelphia], 11 March 1839. In the letter, Combe tells Neal he is "obliged & gratified" by his notice of "Roget's re-publication". In 1838, Peter Mark Roget (who was hostile to phrenology) published Treatises on physiology and phrenology : from the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which was...
Dates:
11 March 1839
Letters to J. L. Levison from Combe and others
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1243
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 20 non-chronologically numbered items, letters and fragments, as follows:
1 - Letter to Levison written from Grafton Place, London. 3 July 1827
2 - Fragment, Mr. Fletcher, Bookseller, Southampton, 15 February 1821 [postmark]
3 - Folded paper or envelope with black edge and black wax seal, addressed to Levison, from Sir G. S. Mackenzie,...
Dates:
1821-1848
List of phrenological heads available from Guy Aîné, Musée phrénologique, Paris, with an invoice
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2939
Scope and Contents
This is a promotional broadside for the Paris Phrenological Museum, with the models supplied by naturalist and model maker Guy Aîné. There is also an invoice on a preprinted invoice form is for one phrenological head, dated 1843.Content warning: this collection contains racist and outdated language and concepts.The list of heads is divided in fur categories:
- "Crânes de différentes races humaines"...
Dates:
1840-1843
Material relating to the research and interests of Matthew H. Kaufman
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1808 / SC-Acc-2016-0196
Identifier: Coll-1808
Content Description
The collection of largely off-print and other typescript material, and photographs... is composed of:
1 x folder - photographs of mouse embryos
1 x folder - ts and off-print material on phrenology
1 x folder - off-print material on medical history
1 x folder - off-print material on the mouse embryo
1 x folder - off-print material on other science
Dates:
1990-2006
Phrenological manuscript entitled "Synopsis and Analysis of the Mental Qualities of Mr Ernest B. Nixon by Professor Hatfield, graduate of the American Institute of Phrenology", late 19th - early 20th-century
Item — Box CLX-A-387
Identifier: Coll-1848/22-0028
Scope and Contents
Phrenological manuscript entitled "Synopsis and Analysis of the Mental Qualities of Mr Ernest B. Nixon by Professor Hatfield, graduate of the American Institute of Phrenology". Fowler & Co., New York. Front cover and back cover are printed, contents of the booklet are manuscript. On the back is written: "Prof. Hatfield may be engaged to give his Unrivalled Character Sketches at Bazaars and Entertainments. Delineation of Character from Photographs". The text analyses character and...
Dates:
late 19th - early 20th-century
Physiognomy and Phrenology Posters by Johann Kaspar Lavater and Franz Joseph Gall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2920
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two illustrated educational broadsides, one on physiognomy by Joseph Kaspar Lavater, and one on phrenology by Franz Jospeh Gall. 1829-1830.The first is a wall chart showing J. K. Lavater's system of physiognomy, entitled "Das Lavatersche System der Physiognomik, oder die Kunst durch die Constitution, die äusseren Gewohnheiten und vorzüglich durch die Untersuchung der Former des Kopfes und der Gesichtszüge des Menschen dessen Geschmack, Neigungen,...
Dates:
Publication: 1829-1830