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 This manuscript volume of an unpublished work is peppered with photographs and engravings of celebrities and notables, from traditional phrenological studies of Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln to David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

churchill.jpg

Citation

Vale, John W., “Phrenological Observations on Winston Churchill,” OnView, accessed March 28, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6178.