Scope and content
Dates
- 1807 - 1968
- Majority of material found within 1836 - 1901
Creator
- Fowler family. (Family)
- Howe, Harlan L. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
.9 cubic feet. (.9 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, articles, lectures, photos, printed matter, and other papers relating to the practice of phrenology by various members of the Fowler and Wells families, including Orson and Lorenzo N. Fowler, Samuel Roberts Wells, and Charlotte Fowler Wells. Includes material relating to "The Phrenological Journal" and "The Practical Phrenologist," periodicals with which the family was associated. Also includes a small number of Civil War letters. Also, originals and transcribed copies of the wills of Charlotte Fowler Howe and Charlotte Fowler Wells, and other letters.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Photographs, Printed Materials.
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.
- Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889.
- Barnes, Albert, 1798-1870.
- Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921.
- Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884.
- Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888.
- Edmonds, John W. (John Worth), 1799-1874.
- Evans, F. W. (Frederick William), 1808-1893.
- Fowler, L. N. (Lorenzo Niles), 1811-1896.
- Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
- Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, 1822-1895.
- Gage, Frances Dana, 1808-1884.
- Graham, Sylvester, 1794-1851.
- Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873.
- Howard, Bronson, 1842-1908.
- Mann, Horace, 1796-1859.
- Nott, Eliphalet, 1773-1866.
- Phrenological journal.
- Phrenology.
- Practical phrenologist.
- Ripley, George, 1802-1880.
- Silliman, Benjamin, 1816-1885.
- Train, George Francis, 1829-1904.
- Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Wade, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878.
- Wells family.
- Wells, Charlotte Fowler, 1814-1901.
- Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M. E. Warren, et al.
- Date
- June 2006
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
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