Phrenological Observations on Winston Churchill
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Title
Phrenological Observations on Winston Churchill
Subject
Phrenology
Vale, John W. (author)
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Manuscripts (document genre)
Description
Phrenological study and speculation was still current in the 1920s. This manuscript volume of an unpublished work is peppered with photographs and engravings of celebrities and notables, from traditional phrenological studies of Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln to David Lloyd George, J. Pierpont Morgan, and, as shown here, H. H. Asquith and Winston Churchill, who both held office as Prime Minister of England. John W. Vale added some thirty phrenological faculties to supplement the Spurzheim system, including imagination, planning, sexual friendship, and tenderness. He includes several self-assessments based on his own photographs.
Abstract
A handwritten phrenological evaluation of a photograph of Winston Churchill from a 1923 manuscript by John W. Vale entitled New Phrenological Organs Discovered
Creator
Vale, John W.
Date
1923
Rights
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Access Rights
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Is Part Of
Marshall Phrenological Collection, 1870s-1958. B MS c99, box 1, f. 30
References
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Format
text
Extent
excerpt (1 page)
Medium
black and white photograph
Language
English
Type
text
Provenance
Purchased for the Boston Medical Library, 1970
Files
Citation
Vale, John W., “Phrenological Observations on Winston Churchill,” OnView, accessed April 26, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6178.