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1832
Vertical file 4: OVR 151-160
GUSN-198985
This lithograph contains harmful imagery and language regarding the offensive pseudoscience of phrenology.
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Dr. Johann Caspar (Gaspard) Spurzheim, died of typhoid in Boston.
phrenology
portraits
medical scientists
lithographs
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection number PR155OVR
1 lithograph
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1920-09-13
GC002.02.155
Estate
23 x 17.5 (HxW)(inches)
Gift Est. Mrs Jane N. Grew, September 13, 1920
Fisher, Alvan, 1792-1863 (Painter)
Pendleton's Lithography (Lithographer)
Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870 (Delineator)
lithographs
prints (visual works)
Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832
Pseudoscience
Dirty with some discoloration and foxing at the edges.
Item
Vertical file 4: OVR 151-160
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