#alvas powell

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mw?

there's a ton of mw faces that we'd love to see here ! i put it under a read more since it's a large list. but bring us whoever you've got the muse for, ofc !

taylor zakhar perez, nicholas galitzine, noah lalonde, danny griffin, jonathan daviss, drew starkey, darren barnett, elias kacavas, emilio sakraya, evan mock, eli brown, glen powell, zane phillips, john boyega, jordan gonzalez, austin butler, henry zaga, felix mellard, thomas weatherall, miles teller, sam claflin, penn badgely, chace crawford, lewis tan, lucas bravo, kit harrington, joseph morgan, josh segarra, harry shum jr, chris pine, ryan gosling, alex saxon, theo james, andrew garfield, gregg sulkin, ben levin, adam brody, logan lerman, pedro pascal, tom holland, mason gooding, lucien laviscount, ryan gosling, rege jean page, froy guiterrez, tanner buchanan, xolo mariduena, robert scott wilson, carson boatman, ross lynch, algee smith, cody christian, adam dimarco, alex fitzalan, daniel ezra, anthony keyvan, keith powers, keiynan lonsdale, joseph quinn, aramis knight, antonio cipriano, derek luh, leo howard, leo woodall, brandon perea, dacre montgomery, diego tinoco, mena massoud, maxence danet-fauxel, lorenzo zurzolo, michael cimino, paul mescal, callum turner, d'pharoh woon-a-tai, jordah fisher, josh heuston,l alex meraz, kiowa gordon, tom glynn carney, avan jogia, dylan minnette, josh hutcherson, assad zaman, gabriel basso, ross butler, robert buckley, james lafferty, david casteneda, brandon soo hoo, grifflin gluck, grant gustin, dylan wang, asa germann, alejandro spietzer, colin ford, alex landi, alfred enoch, aria shahghasemi, anthony turpel, cha eunwoo, aj saudin, danny ramirez, david iacono, chris briney, sabrina carpenter, ayo edibiri, madison bailey, samantha logan, kim doyeon, nichola coughlan, madison davenport, indiana evans, india eisley, lyrica okano, virginia gardner, liana liberato, kiersey clemons, lindsey morgan, liv hewson, emma d'arcy, victoria pedretti, logan browning, lola tung, louriza tronco, lorenza izzo, lovie simone, luca hollestelle, hunter schafer, zion moreno, taylor russell, laura harrier, lana condor, lauren tsai, anna sawai, jane de leon, kylie bunbury, kathryn bernardo, chienna filomeno, phoebe dynevor, simone ashley, maitreyi ramakrishnan, courtney eaton, nicole maines, jessica alexander, peyton alex smith, ella purnell, sophie neilsse, dev patel, rahul kohli, natalia dyer, danielle campbell, ella balinska, bailey bass, jessica sula, emma mackey, mia goth, melissa barerra, alva bratt, kiana lede, kiana madiera, olivia scott welch, kiernan shipka, meg donnelly, camila mendes, brianne tju, maddie hasson, dianna agron, emilija baranac, danielle rose russell, kaylee kaneshiro, isabella gomez, jenny boyd, lulu antarisksa, josephine langford, lizeth selene, marina ruy barbosa, kaya scodelario, katherine mcnamara, chloe rose robertson, kathryn newton, kristine froseth, pat chayanit, davika hoorne, mint ranchrawee, rabia soyturk, hande ercel, aslihan malbora, melisa pamuk, katie stevens, meghann fahy, merrit patterson, adelaide kane, alexxis lemire, adria arjona, amanda arcuri, sadie soverall, sara waisglass, chelsea clark, blu hunt, antonia gentry, brianne howey, bianca santos, bianca lawson, phoebe tonkin, shelley hennig, bruna marquezine, brittany o'grady, crystal reed, charithra chandran, jessie mei li, halston sage, carlson young, willa fitzgerald, halle bailey, chloe bridges, chloe bailey, margot robbie, anne hathaway, lisa yamada, raven bowens, olivia rose keegan, camryn grimes, gideon aldon, tiera skovbye, amy adams, jane levy, angela bassett, anya taylor joy, anya chalotra, ashleigh murray, lucy hale, troian bellisario, sophia bush, bethany joy lenz, shantel vansanten, hilarie burton, shay mitchell, sasha pieterse, janel parrish, malia pyles, bailee madison, chandler kinney, jordan alexander, zaria simone, auli'i cravalho, bebe wood, angourie rice, renee rapp, ashley moore, ashley park, aisha dee, alisha boe, elizabeth lail, alia bhatt, reina hardesty, victoria justice, liz gillies, bahar sahin, amber midthunder, gemma chan, madchen amick, marisol nichols, madison mclaughlin, malese jow, maris racal, maya hawke, jessica chastain, ana de armas, angela sarafyan, and anna lambe !

[dear-indies]

Hi Cat and Mouse!! This is the anon that asked for white female sea goddess related faceclaims, and thank you so much for giving me so many beautiful stunning ladies, but I hope you don’t mind me asking, but May I please be more specific, and ask for some brunette hair color faceclaims, please?

Thank you so much again for putting all your wonderful effort into the previous ask, I really appreciate it a lot <3 :)

Brunette suggestions from the last ask:

Eve Hewson (1991)

Sofia Black-D'Elia (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian.

Poppy Drayton (1991)

Katie Stevens (1992)

Maia Mitchell (1993)

Jesse James Keitel (1993) - is trans.

Benedetta Gargari (1995)

Emma Pasarow (1996)

Luise Befort (1996)

Nicole Maines (1997) - is trans.

Danielle Rose Russell (1999)

New suggestions:

Gia Mantegna (1990)

Adelaide Kane (1990) - is bisexual.

Eline Powell (1990)

Kacey Rohl (1991)

Bel Powley (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish / English.

Jessica Barden (1992)

Cassandra Naud (1992)

Millie Brady (1993)

Elizabeth Gillies (1993)

Aisling Franciosi (1993)

Maria Ehrich (1993)

India Eisley (1993) English, Argentinian [Spanish, possibly other], Scottish, German.

Ivana Baquero (1994)

Taissa Farmiga (1994)

Rose Williams (1994)

Sarah Desjardins (1994)

Avery Konrad (1994)

Kristine Froseth (1995)

Matilda De Angelis (1995)

Molly Gordon (1995) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Danielle Campbell (1995)

Emma Mackey (1996)

Ruby O. Fee (1996)

Mary Mouser (1996)

Ella Purnell (1996)

Ciara Bravo (1997)

Gideon Adlon (1997) Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, some Irish, Northern Irish, and Welsh.

Maude Apatow (1997) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, Scottish, Finnish, German.

Alva Bratt (1998)

Ella Hunt (1998) - is queer.

Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998)

Bailee Madison (1999)

Freya Allan (2001)

Here you anon, it's no trouble at all!

[insomniumhq]

Fc ideas for Hayley and Elijah kids?

Females Lily Collins, Milly Alcock, Hunter Schafer, Freya Allan, Adelaide Kane, Liana Liberato, , Conor Leslie, Erin Moriarty, Alva Bratt, Halston Sage, Hayley Lu Richardson, Madelyn Cline, Bailee Madison, Sadie Soverall Madison Davenport Males Tom Hopper, Robbie Amell, Matthew Daddario, Dacre Montgomery, Nicholas Hoult, Robert Sheehan, Glen Powell, Danny Griffin, Felix Mallard, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Theo James, Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgard, Alex Roe

[don-lichterman]

FC Cincinnati lukewarm on noon start for MLS Cup playoff game

FC Cincinnati lukewarm on noon start for MLS Cup playoff game

As FC Cincinnati defender Alvas Powell confidently stated during a Thursday interview, he and his teammates will be prepared for the club’s historic, first-ever MLS Cup playoff match regardless of the start time. But the team is still aware of the deviation from its usual kickoff times for Saturday, when No. 5-seed FC Cincinnati and No. 4-seed New York Red Bulls commence their first-round playoff…

[mochisquish]

who paired them

[driflloon]

cabaret: vanessa, alva, emma, and sanne for numero berlin dec. 2019

[mybluewindow]

Emma Breschi, Vanessa Powell, Naomi Shimada & Alva Claire by Carlota Guerrero

[santiagolm95]

[ptfcmoderates]

ALVAS: A Hero To Most (some of my heroes DO appear on stamps)

POR:HOU

03.18.17

[libraryofsports]

[ngalot-blogs-ts1a]

Steve Jobs

Persistent

Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was the co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.

In 1976 Wozniak designed and developed apple 1 computer and showed it to jobs, who suggested the they sell it. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald wayne founed Apple computer in the garage of Jobs in Los Altos Home on Crist Drive.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s4pVFLUlx8g&feature=share

Rupert Murdoch

Creative

Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG is an Australian-American billionaire businessman, media tycoon, and investor. He controls a media empire that includes cable channel Fox News, The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal.

Murdoch father was the owner of the news thriving group called News Limited. After inheriting news limited at the age of 21, Murdoch was credited with inventing the modern tabloid. Over the next few decades Murdoch purchased a large number of news paper companies in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States within 50 years his News Corporation came to own more than 800 companies.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fCtPnx5wbso&feature=share

Jeff Bezos

Passion

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and computer engineer. He is the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, where he previously served as the president and CEO.

Jeff wasn’t always the richest person in modern history, he gave up parts of his youth in highschool working at McDonald’s as a line cook. 38 years after cleaning that albuquerque McDonald’s corner to corner he would take o. the title as the richest man on earth.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=a171hw91QjI&feature=share

Thomas Edison

Self Confident

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.

Were most familiar with Thomas Edison as the inventor of the ligh bulb we used today. Having a convenient lught source change peoples lives gone were of the days of being able to go outside.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WPs0SwuXSEw&feature=share

Richard Branson

Risk taker

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor, and author. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age.

Sir Richard Branson was born in England in Juky 18, 1950. At the age of eleven Richard and his childhood friend, Nick Powell established their first business. At thr age of sixteen Richard started one of his most successful business he started a magazine called the student together with his schoolmate Jonathan Holland Gems.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gm7Y_ufevjA&feature=share

[silent-era-of-cinema]

Alice White (born Alva White, August 25, 1904 – February 19, 1983) was an American film actress. Her career spanned late silent films and early sound films.

White was born to French and Italian parents. Her mother was Catherine "Kate" Alexander, a chorus girl, and her father was Audley White, a paper salesman. Audley abandoned the family when she was a baby and Catherine died in 1915. Alice was raised by her maternal grandparents in Paterson, New Jersey, and she attended schools in Paterson and East Orange, New Jersey. Her grandfather owned a fruit business.

After leaving school, White became a secretary and "script girl" for director Josef von Sternberg. She also worked as a switchboard operator at the Hollywood Writers' Club. After clashing with von Sternberg, White left to work for Charlie Chaplin, who decided before long to place her in front of the camera.

Her bubbly and vivacious persona led to comparisons with Clara Bow, but White's career was slow to progress. In his book Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies, Robert K. Klepper wrote: "Some critics have said that Ms. White was a second-string Clara Bow. In actuality, Ms. White had her own type of charm, and was a delightful actress in her own, unique way. Whereas Clara Bow played the quintessential, flaming redheaded flapper, Alice White was more of a bubbly, vivacious blonde."

After playing a succession of flappers and gold diggers, she attracted the attention of director and producer Mervyn LeRoy, who saw potential in her. Her screen debut was in The Sea Tiger (1927).[2] Her early films included Show Girl (1928), which had Vitaphone musical accompaniment but no dialog, and its musical sequel Show Girl in Hollywood (1930), both released by Warner Brothers and both based on novels by J.P. McEvoy. In these two films, White appeared as Dixie Dugan. In October 1929, McAvoy started the comic strip Dixie Dugan with the character Dixie having a "helmet" hairstyle and appearance similar to actress Louise Brooks. White also used the services of Hollywood 'beauty sculptor' Sylvia of Hollywood to stay in shape.

White was featured in The Girl from Woolworth's (1929), having the role of a singing clerk in the music department of a Woolworth's store. Karen Plunkett-Powell wrote in her book Remembering Woolworth's: A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime: "First National Pictures produced this 60-minute musical as a showcase for up-and-coming actress Alice White."

She left films in 1931 to improve her acting abilities, returning in 1933 only to have her career hurt by a scandal that erupted over her involvement with boyfriend actor Jack Warburton and future husband Sy Bartlett. Although she later married Bartlett, her reputation was tarnished and she appeared only in supporting roles after this. By 1937 and 1938, her name was at the bottom of the cast lists. She made her final film appearance in Flamingo Road (1949) and eventually resumed working as a secretary.

In 1933 Alice and her fiance, American screenwriter Sidney Bartlett were accused of arranging the beating of British actor John Warburton. [10] Alice and Warburton had a love affair that ended when he beat her so badly she required cosmetic surgery. A grand jury in Los Angeles decided not to charge Bartlett or White; however, the bad publicity hurt Alice's career.

White married Sidney Bartlett on December 3, 1933 in Magdalena, Mexico. She filed for divorce in 1937 claiming he "stayed away from home" and was awarded $65 per week in alimony.

White married film writer John Roberts on August 24, 1940. They divorced on April 18, 1949 in Los Angeles. The following year, she sued him over unpaid alimony.

White died of complications from a stroke on February 19, 1983 at age 78. She was buried at Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood.

White has a star at 1511 Vine Street in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.

[timeless-hollywood-classics]

Alice White (born Alva White, August 25, 1904 – February 19, 1983) was an American film actress. Her career spanned late silent films and early sound films.

White was born to French and Italian parents. Her mother was Catherine "Kate" Alexander, a chorus girl, and her father was Audley White, a paper salesman. Audley abandoned the family when she was a baby and Catherine died in 1915. Alice was raised by her maternal grandparents in Paterson, New Jersey, and she attended schools in Paterson and East Orange, New Jersey. Her grandfather owned a fruit business.

After leaving school, White became a secretary and "script girl" for director Josef von Sternberg. She also worked as a switchboard operator at the Hollywood Writers' Club. After clashing with von Sternberg, White left to work for Charlie Chaplin, who decided before long to place her in front of the camera.

Her bubbly and vivacious persona led to comparisons with Clara Bow, but White's career was slow to progress. In his book Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies, Robert K. Klepper wrote: "Some critics have said that Ms. White was a second-string Clara Bow. In actuality, Ms. White had her own type of charm, and was a delightful actress in her own, unique way. Whereas Clara Bow played the quintessential, flaming redheaded flapper, Alice White was more of a bubbly, vivacious blonde."

After playing a succession of flappers and gold diggers, she attracted the attention of director and producer Mervyn LeRoy, who saw potential in her. Her screen debut was in The Sea Tiger (1927).[2] Her early films included Show Girl (1928), which had Vitaphone musical accompaniment but no dialog, and its musical sequel Show Girl in Hollywood (1930), both released by Warner Brothers and both based on novels by J.P. McEvoy. In these two films, White appeared as Dixie Dugan. In October 1929, McAvoy started the comic strip Dixie Dugan with the character Dixie having a "helmet" hairstyle and appearance similar to actress Louise Brooks. White also used the services of Hollywood 'beauty sculptor' Sylvia of Hollywood to stay in shape.

White was featured in The Girl from Woolworth's (1929), having the role of a singing clerk in the music department of a Woolworth's store. Karen Plunkett-Powell wrote in her book Remembering Woolworth's: A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime: "First National Pictures produced this 60-minute musical as a showcase for up-and-coming actress Alice White."

She left films in 1931 to improve her acting abilities, returning in 1933 only to have her career hurt by a scandal that erupted over her involvement with boyfriend actor Jack Warburton and future husband Sy Bartlett. Although she later married Bartlett, her reputation was tarnished and she appeared only in supporting roles after this. By 1937 and 1938, her name was at the bottom of the cast lists. She made her final film appearance in Flamingo Road (1949) and eventually resumed working as a secretary.

In 1933 Alice and her fiance, American screenwriter Sidney Bartlett were accused of arranging the beating of British actor John Warburton. [10] Alice and Warburton had a love affair that ended when he beat her so badly she required cosmetic surgery. A grand jury in Los Angeles decided not to charge Bartlett or White; however, the bad publicity hurt Alice's career.

White married Sidney Bartlett on December 3, 1933 in Magdalena, Mexico. She filed for divorce in 1937 claiming he "stayed away from home" and was awarded $65 per week in alimony.

White married film writer John Roberts on August 24, 1940. They divorced on April 18, 1949 in Los Angeles. The following year, she sued him over unpaid alimony.

White died of complications from a stroke on February 19, 1983 at age 78. She was buried at Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood.

White has a star at 1511 Vine Street in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.

[girlofthemoon75]

Led Zeppelin Cover Artwork Part 7

Presence

Led Zeppelin’s seventh album was released on 31 March 1976 on their own label Swan Song Records.

This cover was again designed by Hipgnosis with George Hardie. On the cover we see four people (two adults, two children) sitting on a table with a black object in the middle of the table. The background shows a artificial marina (a photograph of a marina installed in London’s Earl’s Court arena for the annual Boat Show in winter 1974-75). Fun fact: the band played in this venue their series of shows, only a few months after the boat show. The photograph was put together out of two photographs, the family in the front and the boats in the background.

In the inner sleeve you find several stock pictures with the black object. On the back cover photograph you find the same girl who also appeared on Houses of the Holy.

Aubrey Powell had the idea to feature a black object on the cover (aka The Object or The Obelisk). It’s loosely based on the otherworldly and mysterious black monoliths in Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001:A Space Odyssey that affect human evolution: 

The object should represent the Presence of Led Zeppelin and gave the album its title. Both Page and Plant have said that the presence of the object in the photographs made people stop and think about what is real, which reflected the music. The Object has no lines, no shadows or edges in the photographs, as if it isn’t actually there, but a void in the photograph - a presence with no presence.

Jimmy Page: “There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There’s a definite presence there.’ That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk’. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on [the film] 2001 A Space Odyessy. I think it’s quite amusing.”

Powell: “At that point in Led Zeppelin’s career, things were getting quite dark. They weren’t getting along quite as well as they were around Zeppelin III or Zeppelin IV, and Jimmy was in quite a dark space, I think. But it was the same story as with Houses: I got a call from Jim; he said, “We need ideas.” “Do you have a title?” He said, “I’m not telling you. Haven’t any music for you to listen to.” I think they were recording in Stockholm or somewhere like that and I always remember he said, “See me in three weeks and come up with some ideas.”Storm, myself, George Hardie, Richard Evans, a couple of other guys who used to work with us sat around and got a bit stoned to think up ideas. Somebody said, “Imagine a party where everybody has a black cat, because people love stroking cats. Imagine if people stroked cats and they got an energy from it, like a battery or something like that.” Black cats – it’s too silly, it’s too obvious. So we said, “Let’s think of something else that’s not a cat that will be kind of interesting.”I said, “What about a black object?” The film 2001 has the black slab at the end of it when he’s going through space. And it just fit into place. The original black object that we made up was made up of cardboard and black velvet, and actually it was straight; it wasn’t twisted. I went to see the band, and I had the object sitting on a table in the hotel room. Robert and Jimmy walked in, and Jim took one look at it and went, “That is it. That represents everything that I feel right now.” And I had a series of pictures that I had torn out of National Geographic magazines from the 1950s and just painted in black paint that exact shaped object with ordinary people in ordinary situations. In other words: This was something you needed to live. It was food. It was a symbol of energy, of power, which is what Led Zeppelin were. It was so brave of a very, very heavy rock band to take such a surreal idea. I mean, a family sitting at a boat show with a black object on the front is that Led Zeppelin? I don’t think so. But if you take it another way, yes, it is Led Zeppelin. On the back cover, you’ve got a school teacher with a child with a black object on the desk teaching the child. The power of teaching. You know, it’s all there. Again, I take my hat off to band for having the balls to take such an outrageous idea. It’s all about power. That’s what Led Zeppelin were about: power. Source x

To promote the album, Swan Song Records enlisted the Alva Museum Graphics in New York to produce 1′000 individually numbered 12″ replicas of The Object, which are unsurprisingly highly sought-after collectors items today.

Here’s another very interesting article about The Object and other monoliths in art and film.

Hipgnosis and Hardie were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album Package in 1977 for this cover.

So, as always I’d love to know your thoughts and your favorite song of the album. Mine are Achilles Last Stand and Tea for One.

[juicemagazine]

You’re invited to the first free Venice public screening of “Made In Venice” – a documentary that chronicles the history of the skateboarders of Venice and their efforts to get a skatepark built for the community. 🏁🏁🏁 It’s a fundraiser for Jesse Martinez, and it’s FREE to get in, so show up at 6pm tonight, August 21st, at The Waterfront, at 205 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, California, and support! Join us for a night of community at this special summer show, directly benefiting the Venice Skatepark and Jesse Martinez’s selfless efforts to maintain it day and day out with no payment. 🤙🤙🤙 There will be a raffle and a silent auction and spin the wheel with lots of cool prizes organized by Juice Magazine with all proceeds going to Jesse, plus $1 from every Waterfront Coastal Lager sold goes to the cause thanks to our co-host & friends @thewaterfrontvenice . 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 The raffle and auctions include cool donations from Spitfire, Anti Hero, Ace Trucks, Nike, Dogtown Skates, Zephyr, AWOL Skates, Vans, Black Flys, Suicidal Skates, Alva, Bulldog Skates, Powell Peralta, Bones Brigade, Bones Bearings, Skull Skates, Carver Skates, Dwindle Distribution, Blind, Enjoi, Almost, Arbor, Factory 13, Dusters, Darkstar, Z-Flex, Tim Jackson, George Wilson, Libby Knudsen, Ranch N Roll, Munson Industries, Ethics Supply Co., Mauro Monteiro, Mathew Curran, Gibson USA, The Waterfront, Juice Magazine and the Made In Venice Movie! Thank you everyone! Silent auction and Raffle starts at 6pm. @MadeInVeniceMovie screening starts at 8pm at The Waterfront, located at 205 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, California. 💙💙💙 The online auction will begin tonight and run for 2 weeks at juicemagazinetv on eBay https://ebay.us/Rh0VJM (at The Waterfront Venice) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1b91ebld84/?igshid=cslpzxjuhlvv

[handeaux]

Cincinnati’s First Woman Doctor: Her Dowry Included Her Mentor’s Head

If Temperance Hartman Pocock Kinsey was not the first female physician in Cincinnati, she was certainly among the first of that rare breed. As early as 1856, she was complimented as a fine physician by one of her professors, the formidable W. Byrd Powell, a titan of the eclectic medical movement. In the first edition of his masterwork, “The Natural History of Human Temperaments,” Powell describes Dr. Kinsey as an exemplar of the “bilious-encephalic” temperament:

“We will conclude this article by presenting the portrait of a female illustration, Mrs. T. Hartman Kinsey, M. D. This lady merits a place in a work of this kind. She is essentially feminine in all the outlines of her person and feelings, and yet her intellect has a masculine grasp. She has been a student upon this subject for several years, under our guidance. She is now familiarly and practically acquainted with it. She designates temperaments readily ; and those who may desire information upon the very important subject of marriage compatibility of constitution, may safely obtain it from her. In this department of the subject she is, and has been, deeply interested; and with reference to it she has rendered us important service in procuring the illustrations of this work. We have also a very favorable opinion of her abilities as a medical practitioner. She has labored to make herself useful, and has succeeded, but will succeed in a more eminent degree, if industry can effect it. She is now doing a lucrative business in medical practice.”

So taken was Dr. Powell with the bilious-encephalic Dr. Kinsey, that he included in his will a most unusual bequest. Dr. Powell died, aged 67, in 1866, and one can only imagine the reaction when the following item was read in probate:

“Furthermore, I give and bequeath to Mrs. T.H. Kinsey, of Cincinnati, Ohio, my head, to be removed from my body, for her use, by A.T. Keckeler, or his agents.”

You see, W. Byrd Powell was a noted phrenologist and was much invested in studying how the inner essence of human beings was expressed through the shape of their heads. It was rather common for phrenologists to donate their heads to science.

It is essential to note here that, almost simultaneously with Dr. Powell’s demise, Mrs. Kinsey became Mrs. Keckeler, by marrying the Adolphus Turner Keckeler authorized to remove Dr. Powell’s head. Keckeler was also a doctor and also a student of Dr. Powell’s. His wife died a few years prior to Powell’s death. Mrs. Kinsey was a widow; her husband, a silversmith had died a year before she remarried.

Shortly after W. Byrd Powell was consigned to his grave in Covington’s Linden Grove Cemetery, his eternal rest was disturbed, his body exhumed and his head removed by Dr. Alva Curtis, dean of Cincinnati’s Physio-Medical College, from which Mrs. Kinsey earned her M.D. in 1855.

A modern reader cannot escape the suspicion that A.T. Keckeler married T.H. Kinsey to gain access to Dr. Powell’s bequeathed cranium. She was 44; he was 10 years younger. Both Keckeler and Kinsey were trained as phrenologists, obsessed with skulls and heads. A contemporary news item relates that Dr. Keckeler’s scientific collection of heads exceeded 400 crania. One wonders where he kept them. At least one observer pondered the motivation behind this matrimonial union. A letter writer signing himself as “Poor Kentucky” in the Enquirer [26 July 1866] had this to say:

“Thus it transpires that if Dr. Keckeler possesses the head of the lamented Professor, his right of property has been established by his having sought and procured the hand of the fair legatee, with, also, the heart of the lady it is to be hoped; and also the head of the celebrated philosopher as a marriage portion contributed by the legatee herself.”

No one at the time recorded how many heads Dr. Kinsey-Keckeler had in her own collection, but it appears that the marriage was a reasonably happy one. The Drs. Keckeler published a second edition of W. Byrd Powell’s magnum opus (taking care to insert a new and presumably preferable woodcut of Temperance). They also promoted Temperance’s own 1869 book “Thaleia: Woman: Her Physiology and Pathology,” a popularly written handbook on obstetrics and gynecology. In the introduction to that book, we get a brief biography of this pioneering woman doctor:

“She was born near the city of Terre Haute, Indiana; was left an orphan at an early age, and passed her childhood and girlhood in Butler County, Ohio, under the adoption and care of a family whose members were particular friends of her father. Her first marriage was to Edward Kinsey, Esq., of Cincinnati, who was at that time, and for many years after, the only extensive manufacturer of silverware in the West. A most desirable, but unexpected opportunity presented itself in 1850, and, with the cordial approval, encouragement, and aid of her husband, but against the wishes and advice of every other relative, and with very little sympathy from most of her acquaintances, she commenced a regular course of medical study, her name having been enrolled as that of the first Western woman in the first Western college that had the liberality to acknowledge the right of woman to receive a full medical education, and, at the same time, to afford her an opportunity to obtain it. She pursued her studies in all the requisite branches, during five years, and graduated with honor.”

It appears that Temperance practiced medicine with an exclusively feminine clientele until her death in 1893. She is buried at Spring Grove.

Also buried at Spring Grove is her widower, A.T. Keckeler, who survived her until 1911, gaining some renown as a colleague and ally of Charles Darwin and an early practitioner of what we would now call cultural anthropology. No mention, at his death, where his 400 heads ended up.

As a footnote, it is a fact that, through his daughter by his first marriage, A.T. Keckeler is the great-great-grandfather of musician Ry Cooder.

[Thanks to Jay Gilbert for the tip leading to this post.]