Phrenological Era [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*Phrenological Era*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Phrenological Era, The. Organ of the Tope School of Phrenology / An Independent and Illustrated Human Science Journal / An Illustrated Monthly Journal Devoted to Character Reading, Health and Public Reforms. Know thyself 1905--1939? Monthly Bowerston, OH. Language: English. Editor: Prof. Melanchthon Tope. 1/1, January 1905-1939(?) Fifty cents-$1.00 a year, 32pp. Organ of the Ohio Phrenological Society and of the Tope School of Phrenology. Advertised in Azoth, April 1918, as "Devoted to Character Reading, Health, Vocational Guidance, Marriage, Education and Public Reforms. The Only Phrenological Magazine in America. Every number worth a 25 cent lecture." Noted in William C. Hartmann’s Who’s Who in Occult, Psychic and Spiritual Realms (1925). Tope began the State Phrenological Society of Ohio in 1906 and is said to have published this journal for 40 years. It was still continuing in 1939 at least, the last issue in the NYPL microfilm. Numerous photographs and biographies of the pioneers of phrenology.
Other Sources:	NYPL.
Issues:	Phrenological Era V9 1913
	Phrenological Era V10 1914
	Phrenological Era V21 N10 Dec 1925
Claude-Generated Themes:	Read across 1913–1925, the Phrenological Era is a late practical phrenology magazine, showing the head-reading tradition persisting into the twentieth century. Its content is the familiar core — the cerebral organs and faculties — bent toward practical application and self-improvement, sustained by the commercial apparatus of examinations and charts. It is evidence that practical phrenology survived as a working popular practice for decades after the science had lost all standing, carried by its usefulness as vocational and self-improvement guidance rather than by any scientific claim. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Phrenology and Physiognomy