Phrenology.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Burt Green Wilder papers
Collection
Identifier: 14-26-95
Abstract
Diaries; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, Wilder's career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War; activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both...
Dates:
1841-1925.
Fowler and Wells families papers
Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 97
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...
Dates:
1807 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1836 - 1901
Henry W. Sage papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1155
Abstract
The Sage papers consists of material pertaining to his business interests, the affairs of Cornell University, and his personal interests.
Dates:
1814-1930.
Thomas Kennicut Beecher papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 96
Abstract
Sermons, correspondence, notes, reviews, an article, certificate of chaplaincy and other mataterial belonging to F. Kennicutt Beecher and his family..
Dates:
1844-1898.