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Key to phrenology / by Prof. Wm. Seymour, practical phrenologist & psychologist, of Philadelphia.

Seymour, William (Phrenologist), Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library · 1890 · Philadelphia : [Prof. W. Seymour, & Son, Publishers], cAug. 29th, 1890. · 61 pictures

Key to Phrenology is an 1890 Philadelphia publication by the phrenologist William Seymour, a manual for readers of head-reading and character analysis. Its pictures are small engraved portraits of men shown in profile and three-quarter views, with hatched shading and plain collars, offering a designer period-accurate figure studies of 19th-century sitters.

Phrenology

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