The Lost Museum Archive
The Traveling Phrenologist in the White Mountains
This image from an illustrated newsweekly shows how the nineteenth-century popular science of phrenology was disseminated across the United States. Itinerant phrenologists, joining other types of traveling salesmen and craftsmen, crisscrossed rural America selling their services and wares. "Yes, miss," the phrenologist is quoted in the picture's caption, "you've a very remarkable head, very!"
Source: The Traveling Phrenologist in the White Mountains, Joseph Becker, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 9, 1882