The new science of analyzing character
A 1920 Boston study of physiognomy by Harry Harvey Balkin, published by The Four Seas Company, that reads character from facial features and is held by the Library of Congress. The pictures are black-and-white studio portraits of men in suits, shown as head-and-shoulders frontal and three-quarter views, with some profiles and a set of four cropped mugshot-style faces. A designer might take the stark, unsmiling, tightly framed portrait style and the contrast between profile and frontal poses as a study in facial typing.
