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Phrenology and Elizabeth Oakes...
Phrenology and Elizabeth Oakes...
Item # 691012
October 01, 1853
AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, New York, November, 1853 Phrenology is a theory stating that the personality traits of a person can be derived from the shape of the skull. Although holding no validity today, it was a popular science in the mid-19th century and this periodical focused on it.
There is much in this issue including an analysis of the phrenology of "Black Hawk--A ac Chief" with two prints of him. Also prints of a "Patagonian" with skull, and a "Skull of A Hindoo" and other skulls as well. There is also a print of "Kamstchadale", plus an article & print of "The Giraffes".
There are several prints on the making of "Artificial Teeth" with an article.
Of interest is a print of, and lengthy article on: "Mrs. E. Oakes Smith". Elizabeth Oakes was a poet, fiction writer, lecturer, and women's rights activist whose career spanned six decades, from the 1830s to the 1880s, her reputation today rests on her feminist writings, including "Woman and Her Needs", a series of essays published in the New York Tribune between 1850 and 1851 that argued for women's spiritual and intellectual capacities as well as women's equal rights to political and economic opportunities, including rights of franchise and higher education.
Also of interest is a back page print of the "Residence of O. S. Fowler". Orson Squire Fowler was one of the publishers of this magazine, it being an octagonal residence which he popularized in the mid-19th century.
Complete in 24 pages, 9 by 11 1/4 inches, very nice condition.
Complete in 24 pages, 9 by 11 1/4 inches, very nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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