Phrenological Chart of Character, by Stackpool E O'Dell, 1916

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/194
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Phrenological Chart of Character, by Stackpool E O'Dell, 1916
Date(s)	: 1916
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 small volume
Name of creator(s)	: O'Dell | Stackpool E | fl 1916
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

O'Dell's Phrenological Institution was founded in 1868, established in London in 1879 and was located at Ludgate Circus and in East Sheen at the the time this item was published.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Printed booklet 'A Phrenological Chart of Character' by Stackpool E O'Dell and Mrs Stackpool E O'Dell, Consulting Phrenologists, including several charts and tables completed in manuscript, and 30 page manuscript 'phrenological delineation' of a young male individual, dated Sep 1916.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased on behalf of Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Lesley Hall, August 1996, from Folkestone antiquarian bookdealer.

Allied Materials

Related material:

A number of publications by Stackpool O'Dell and other members of his family are to be found in the Modern Medicine collection of the Wellcome Library. Additional material on phrenology is detailed in Sources leaflet no. 17 'Alternative Medicine'.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009