Composite Photographs: Tuberculosis Patients, Criminals, Family Likeness, Classical Figures and Crania
- Date:
- c1870s-1880s
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/8/1/14
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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Description
Also includes a set of photographs of children to demonstrate family likeness, and composites of Napoleon, Roman women, Alexander the Great and criminals.
Originally listed as the following (note that this list has now been revised and is no longer in use):
1. Plate nos. I to II. Male and female faces; phthisis and syphilis sufferers (2 negatives).
2. Plate nos. III to IV. Males faces; different face shapes (negatives).
3. Composite family likenesses. Feb 1882. Male, female and epicene.
4. Broad faces with thick and heavy features, strumous type. Provisional results. Male and female (2 negatives).
5. Male narrow ovoid faces. Revised. "Tubercular" type" (2 negatives).
6. Imperfect and incomplete male results. The average healthy male face. Royal Engineer officers and privates (three cut out). The average male face with phthisis (negatives).
7. Narrow ovids with regular and well cut features. "Tubercular" type". Provisional result. all male.
8-10. Three plates of male faces, unlabelled. Negative of 10.
11. Composites of only two components. Female, including statue and portrait.
12. Narrow ovids with regular features. "Tubercular" type". Narrow ovids of a lower type. All female (negatives)
13. Broad faces. Heavy lower jaws, coarse features. Strumous type. All female.
14-16. Three plates of female faces, unlabelled.
17. Composite of eight crania. 'Brit. Ass. Report' p. 690, York, 1881 (negatives)
18. Composites of Alexander the Great and criminals
19. Composites of Napoleon and Roman ladies.
20. Average female face with/without phthisis