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From Pat Deveney's database:
Illustrated Annual of Phrenology and Physiognomy, The. Phrenological annual almanac published under a variety of titles to accompany Fowler & Wells' Phrenological Journal and showcase its other offerings. The volumes featured the usual discourses on phrenology and physiognomy, illustrated by plates of the illustrious persons chosen for detailed examination. There were occasional discussions of graphology. On Wells, see the note under Phrenological Journal and Science of Health. In |
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| Phrenological Almanac New York 1841 | |
| Phrenological Almanac And Physiological Guide 1845 | |
| Phrenological And Physiological Almanac 1848 | |
| Illustrated Phrenological Almanac 1850 | |
| Illustrated Phrenological Almanac 1851 | |
| Illustrated Phrenological Almanac 1852 | |
| Illustrated Annual Of Phrenology And Physiognomy 1865-73 | |
| Illustrated Annual Of Phrenology And Physiognomy 1865-9 | |
| Illustrated Almanac Of Phrenology And Physiognomy 1871 | |
| Illustrated Annual Of Phrenology And Physiognomy 1872 | |
| Illustrated Annual Of Phrenology And Physiognomy 1875 | |
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The Phrenological Almanac was the popular annual of Fowler & Wells, issued from 1841 into the 1870s, and it shows how thoroughly practical phrenology penetrated ordinary American life. Where the firm's Journal argued the science and its examiners sold private readings, the Almanac put the map of the cerebral organs into the cheap household annual that a nineteenth-century family bought as a matter of course alongside its calendar and its weather notes. Its contents are the named faculties and their signs — firmness, benevolence, the proportions of the animal and the upper brain, read from a portrait or a living head — together with vocational and matrimonial guidance, hints on health and the eyes, the publisher's advertising for charts and busts and books, and the general miscellany of the genre. It is phrenology as a mass-market product rather than a learned pursuit, and for that reason among the best evidence of how widely the doctrine actually circulated. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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