Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) American showman; co-founder of Barnum and Bailey circus. Edward Linley Sambourne cartoon from 'Punch' London 1884 in the Fancy Portraits series showing Barnum as a wily fox exploiting people's phrenological bump of Credulity. At this time Gall and Spurzheim's idea that physical formation of skull was related to mental capacity, Engraving

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Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) American showman; co-founder of Barnum and Bailey circus. Edward Linley Sambourne cartoon from 'Punch' London 1884 in the Fancy Portraits series showing Barnum as a wily fox exploiting people's phrenological bump of Credulity. At this time Gall and Spurzheim's idea that physical formation of skull was related to mental capacity, Engraving

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