Cdv4" x 2 1/2" .  E.& H.T. Anthony from Brady negative backmark.. Fine cond. (md011); $85.
Orson Squire Fowler (October 11, 1809 – August 18, 1887) was a phrenologist and lecturer. He also popularized the octagon house in the middle of the nineteenth century. With his brother Lorenzo Niles Fowler, he opened a phrenological office in New York City. Orson wrote and lectured on phrenology, preservation of health, popular education and social reform from 1834 to 1887. Lorenzo and his wife  lectured frequently with Orson on the subject of phrenology.  The three were "in large measure" responsible for the mid-19th century popularity of phrenology. Orson edited and published the American Phrenological Journal,  He is also  remembered as a man of universal reform who preached for education, temperance, and equality. Orson, like his sister-in-law Lydia Fowler, held forth for the equality for women at a time when women had virtually no legal rights in the United States. Orson stood for children's rights when child labor was quite acceptable in the burgeoning industrial factories of his country.