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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.
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GB 0120 GC/194 1916 Collection (fonds) 1 small volume O'Dell , Stackpool E , fl 1916
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.
Purchased on behalf of Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Lesley Hall, August 1996, from Folkestone antiquarian bookdealer.
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.
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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.
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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'.
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
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.
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Purchased on behalf of Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Lesley Hall, August 1996, from Folkestone antiquarian bookdealer.
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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.
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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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