How to read the human head and face
A 1903 Detroit physiognomy manual by H. Ellis Foster, How to Read the Human Head and Face, illustrated with halftone photographs of men's heads and faces, apparently sitters chosen to show character types. The four plates are plain head-and-shoulders portraits in soft brown-grey tones with a documentary, unposed look that a designer could use for period character studies, vintage casting references, or early twentieth-century photographic texture.
