Mediumship Collection (page 3)

SPIRIT MISSIONARY
Beulah, a spirit missionary, who devotes herself to guiding errant mortals into the true path of spirituality Date: 1887

UNHAPPY SPIRITS
Unhappy spirits in the Spirit World, bitterly regretting now that they did not behave themselves while on Earth Date: 1887

SPIRIT PHOTO - BUGUET
French photographer Edouard Buguet depicted in the act of faking a spirit photograph Date: circa 1870

SPIRIT PHOTO DEANE
Mrs Mackenzie sits, unaware that the spirit of John Ruskin is floating over her right shoulder Date: 1920s

JULIAS BUREAU
Julias Bureau, created by journalist W T Stead, claims to receive messages from the Borderland : Punch mocks... Date: 1893

MEDIUM / MILLER
CHARLES VICTOR MILLER American medium who held dramatic seances in Paris : materialisation of a figure Date: 1908

POST PARRISH 6
At Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Ethel Post Parrish materialises the spirit of Silver Belle picture 6 of 7 Date: 1953

POST PARRISH 5
At Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Ethel Post Parrish materialises the spirit of Silver Belle picture 5 of 7 Date: 1953

PALLADINO AT GENOVA
Eusapia raises a table while controlled by Morselli, at Genova, 12 July 1906 picture 1 of 2 Date: 1854 - 1918

Harry Prices investigations into the mediumship of Duncan
Photographs from Harry Prices investigations into the mediumship of Helen Duncan and of Ms Esson Maule, who was involved with the exposure of Helen Duncan during a seance in Edinburgh

Marthe Beraud ( Eva C ) exudes ectoplasm from her navel, which loops round her nipples, at the home of Madame Bisson at 33 rue George Sand, Paris, Date: 9 January 1913

George Chapman, spiritual healer and medium
George Chapman (1921-2006), English trance spiritual healer and medium. He was active for 60 years through the spirit of Dr William Lang (1852-1937)

Winifred Coombe-Tennant (Mrs Willett), medium
Winifred Margaret Serocold Coombe-Tennant (pseudonym: Mrs Willett, 1874-1956), British suffragette, politician, philanthropist, patron of the arts and spiritualist who engaged in automatic writing

Helen Duncan emitting ectoplasm from her mouth
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan emitting " ectoplasm" from her mouth, containing magazine cut-out head, during sance, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (i)"

Scottish medium Helen Duncan during sance with ectoplasm
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during sance with " ectoplasm" wrapped around her head and the end tucked into her nostrils, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (x)"

French transfiguration medium Eugenie Picquart
Photograph of the French " transfiguration" medium Eugenie Picquart at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, in a trance during experiments, 1928. HPG/1/7/17 (ii)"

Rudi Schneider (1908 - 1957) - an Austrian Spiritualist physical medium, investigated by notable psyschical researchers such as Harry Price and Eric J Dingwall

Willi Schneider
Austrian medium Willi Schneider in the main street at Brunau

Margery Crandon 6
Comparison of the thumbprint of Walter, control of American medium Margery, with that of a living Boston dentist - one of the dubious items which aroused suspicions of tricks

Duncan Ectoplasm 2
Medium Helen Duncan emits ectoplasm during a sitting for Harry Price

Using Planchette
A girl, blindfolded, uses the planchette with a pencil fixed in it, hoping to receive by automatic writing a message from the spirits in the beyond

American Planchette
An American planchette

Irish Witch
In England, spirit mediums live off the fat of the land, while in Ireland, so-called witches are punished Date: 1865

Paranormal: William S. Marriott fake seance with flying banjo
A banjo floats mysteriously in the air at one of William S. Marriotts fake seances, thanks to a hook in the curtain, manipulated by the medium. Date: 1910

Paranormal: William S. Marriott exposes levitation trick
The British magician William S. Marriott simulates Polish medium Stanislawa Tomczyks levitation of an object in full light. Date: 1910

Webber & Ectoplasm
Jack Webber (1907-1940), English physical medium, producing ectoplasm from his mouth Date: 1939

Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, physician and researcher
Dr Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (1862-1929), German physician, psychiatrist and psychical researcher. He investigated various spiritualist mediums

Daniel Dunglas Home, medium, with skull
Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-1886), Scottish-American medium, contemplating a skull. Date: 19th century

Gladys Osborne Leonard and Sir Oliver Lodge
Gladys Osborne Leonard, trance medium, and Sir Oliver Lodge, scientist and psychical researcher. Date: 20th century

Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan, blindfolded during a sance, with her head covered with ectoplasm reaching down to floor. The photograph is annotated to show fraudulence

Wassilko-Serecki / Zugun
Eleonore Zugun (right) (1914 - ?) and Countess Zoe Wassilko- Serecki. There was much study of Zugun in relation to poltergeist activity which afflicted her childhood

Margery Crandon
Mina Stinson - aka Margery Crandon - controversial American spirit medium

Davenport Brothers
The brothers William and Ira Davenport, pretending to be spirit mediums but actually clever stage magicians

Catherine Muller
HELENE ET SON ANGE GARDIEN self-portrait by Catherine Muller of herself accompanied by her guardian angel

Braunau Seance Room
Austrian medium Rudi Schneider with investigators in the seance room at the Schneider home, Braunau

Cheesecloth
Ethel Beenham, Harry Prices secretary, demonstrates how a sheet of cheesecloth 2 metres by half a metre can be fitted into a deceiving mediums mouth or other orifice

Duncan Ectoplasm
Controversial English medium Helen Duncan emits a fine flow of ectoplasm for Harry Price. He will reveal it to be made of cheesecloth

Duncan Materialisation
Helen Duncan, in her own home, produced a materialised figure while her hands are held by sitters

Medium / Helen Duncan
HELEN DUNCAN Duncan produces ectoplasm during a test by Harry Price

Fake Spirit Photo
The usual " spirit photograph", obtained by photographing the sitter with a positive of the ghost concealed in the dark-slide

Cook / Katie King Photo 1
Katie King touches one sitter, while another seems indifferent to her presence, at the home of Sir William Crookes

Buguet Photo of Man
Photo by Edouard Buguet showing a seated gentleman and a bearded visitor, identified as the spirit of John King, a pirate

Etta Wriedt
ETTA WRIEDT American spirit medium

Houghton / Hope 6
rev Barrett & spirit : Mr Hudson & Thurston : Stainton Moses & spirit : Alfred Russel Wallace & ma : W Arbuthnot etc :John Beattie : Mr Glendinning Geo. Sutherland : Dr Thomson Date: 1882

Kluski at Warsaw 1919
A flash photo reveals a mysterious manifestation at a Warsaw seance, of which his neighbour seems blissfully unaware Date: 23 November 1919

Kluski at Warsaw 1920
A figure garbed in oriental attire materialises behind Kluski, caught by the camera flash though unseen by the sitters : the black marks are paranormal scratches on film Date: 15 June 1920

Mrs Fletcher on Trial
Susie (Willis) Fletcher is found guilty of obtaining the property of Mrs Hart Davies by spiritualistic fraud, and is sentenced to twelve months hard labour Date: January 1881

Einer Nielsen 1953
Einer Nielsen, Danish medium, disgorging teleplasm Date: 17 January 1953

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