The new science of analyzing character
A 1920 Boston book from The Four Seas Company by Harry Harvey Balkin on analyzing character through physiognomy, the reading of facial features as signs of personality. Its photographs are plain, grainy halftone head-and-shoulders portraits of men, some turned sideways and some in paired or four-up grids, with a mugshot-like documentary feel that a designer could borrow for studies of expression, type, or vintage portrait layouts.
