Spiritualism Collection

Seance, Leipzig
Spiritualism comes to Germany - a table-lifting seance at Leipzig in the early days

Ouija Board Danger
The Ouija Board - Doorway to the Occult - by Edmund C Gruss, chairman of the Department of History at Los Angeles Baptist College at Newhall, California

Rudi Schneider Seance
Rudi Schneider (centre) - Austrian physical medium - and Harry Price (second right) re- enact their session - London

Handkerchief Knot Test
Test at the National Psychical Laboratory on Rudi Schneider the Austrian spiritualist physical medium. Here, a knot has allegedly been tied paranormally in a handkerchief

Fox Sisters
The Fox family respond to mysterious rappings in their home at Hydesville, New York, which they attribute to spirits; this leads to the creation of spiritualism

Rev Francis Ward Monck and William Oxley, spiritualists
Rev Francis Ward Monck (right, c. 1842-?)) and William Oxley (1823-1905), spiritualists. Oxley was a Methodist, Swedenborgian, spiritualist and writer based in Manchester

Materialisation of Geordie, controlling spirit of Annie Fairlamb (later Mrs J B Mellon, 1850-1938). He was described as a tall Scotsman who had lived most of his life in Newcastle. Date: 19th century

Alleged Abnormal levitation of a table
Undated photograph of the alleged abnormal levitation of a table (inverted), photographed at a sance with Mrs Poole of Winnipeg. HPG/1/7/25

Florence Cook, medium, with Katie King behind her
Florence Cook (c.1856-1904) was an English medium who claimed to materialise a spirit named Katie King. This photograph, taken during a seance at the house of William Crookes

Ermines table turning
A group of lady ermines (which, to be honest, look more like ferrets) partake in some table turning during a sceance. One of a number of taxidermy tableaux featured in an article in The Girl's

Opening of Julia's Bureau, with W T Stead and staff
Group photo at the opening of Julia's Bureau, a seance circle, with W T Stead (far right) and staff. The Bureau was based in Mowbray House, Norfolk Street, London

Spirit head and shoulders sketch of D. D. Home
Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume') (March 20, 1833 June 21, 1886) was a Scottish Spiritualist, famous as a physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights

MEDIUM IN TRANCE
A medium in trance calls up a spirit of the dead - cover of a popular French manual by Schemahni. Date: circa 1900

Samuel Carter Hall Cdv 1800 1889 Irish Born Editor
samuel, carter, hall, cdv, 1800, 1889, irish, born, editor, writer, based, london, wife, death, became, involved, spiritualism, full, length, white, hair, cane, bowtie, wife's, history

LUCY & MR AITKEN
How the Dead care for the Living in America - little Lucy Aitken, the dead daughter of a factory owner, leads her father to the sick-bed of Morrow, an employee - Date: 1887

LITTLE GEORGIE
How the Dead watch over the Living in America - when Little Georgie is in difficulty, he is protected by the spirit of his dead mother - Date: 1887

CHINESE SPIRITS
China : invoking the spirits of the dead Date: circa 1915

Cora L V Scott, American spiritualist medium
Cora Lodencia Veronica Scott (1840-1923), American spiritualist medium. She married four times, and adopted her husbands surname each time (Hatch, Daniels, Tappan, and Richmond)

Florence Cook, spirit medium, in later life
Florence Cook (c.1856-1904) was an English medium who claimed to materialise a spirit named Katie King. Seen here in later life, sitting in a garden with a dog on her lap

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

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)"

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

Lily Dale, NY, USA - South Street
Lily Dale - a hamlet located in the Town of Pomfret on the east side of Cassadaga Lake, next to the Village of Cassadaga. Located in southwestern New York State, USA

Dr Frederick L H Willis, American spiritualist and physician
Dr Frederick Llewellyn Hovey Willis (1830-1914), American spiritualist minister and physician. He grew up in the same household as Louisa May Alcott and her family

William Stainton Moses, spirit medium
Rev William Stainton Moses (1839-1892), Anglican clergyman, spiritualist, spirit medium and writer (under the pen name M A Oxon)

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

The Bloksberg Tryst
Undated handwritten text regarding and colour illustration of The Bloksberg Tryst. HPF/5C/52

Caricature of Mrs Fletcher and Mrs Hart-Davies
Caricature of Susan Willis Fletcher, spiritualist, and Mrs Juliette Hart-Davies, her victim. Fletcher was convicted of obtaining jewellery by deception from Mrs Hart-Davies. 1881

Mrs. Violet Parent Clairvoyent. Victorian Lady sitting in chair Date: 1939

FLAMMARION, Camille (1842 - 1925). French astronomer. Oil

M Hallgarth, spiritualist, in a studio photo. Date: circa 1870s

Miss or Mrs Leece, spiritualist, in a studio photo. Date: 19th century

Couple using a Telesphere
A couple using a Telesphere, a form of planchette or ouija board. Date: early 20th century

Georgina Weldon, campaigner, litigant and amateur singer
Georgina Weldon 1837-1914), campaigner against the lunacy laws, litigant and amateur singer. Her interest in spiritualism led her husband to try to prove that she was insane; she resisted being taken

George Robert Tapp, spiritualist, member of the Dalston Association of Enquirers into Spiritualism. He attended meetings during which the medium Florence Cook materialised the spirit of Katie King

F W Percival, spiritualist belonging to the circle of William Stainton Moses, spirit medium. Date: 19th century

Georgina Houghton, spiritualist writer and medium
Georgina Houghton (?-1887), spiritualist writer and medium, seen here with her mothers spirit hovering behind her. The photographer was later exposed as a fraud. Date: 19th century

J H Gledstanes, spiritualist
J H Gledstanes (1828-?), Victorian spiritualist. Date: 1872

David Duguid, James Bowman and H Nisbet
David Duguid (centre, 1832-1907), Scottish medium best known for his automatic and direct drawings. Seen here with James Bowman, photographer (left), and H Nisbet, publisher (right)

Anna Eliza Lord Chamberlain, American spiritualist
Anna Eliza Lord Chamberlain (1842-?), American spiritualist, the first to give trance lectures in New York. Seen here with a guitar. Date: 19th century

Mrs J H (Fannie) Conant, American spirit medium
Mrs J H (Fannie or Fanny) Conant (1831-1875), American spirit medium and healer. Seen here with spirit hands and flowers in the background. Date: 19th century

Thomas Blyton, researcher into spiritualism
Thomas Blyton, spiritualist, secretary of the Dalston Association of Enquirers into Spiritualism. He hosted seances by Florence Cook in the early 1870s

Edward T Bennett, spiritualist and author
Edward T Bennett, spiritualist, psychical researcher and author. Date: circa 1874

Caroline E Bassett, Victorian spiritualist. Date: 19th century

Dame Edith Lyttelton, writer, campaigner and spiritualist
Dame Edith Sophy Lyttelton (nee Balfour, 1865-1948), writer, administrator, campaigner and spiritualist. She served as President of the Society for Psychical Research (1933-34)

Henry Steel Olcott 1
HENRY STEEL OLCOTT American industrialist, converted to spiritualism, converted to theosophy by Blavatsky, converted to Buddhism. Date: 1832 - 1907

Willi & Rudi Schneider
The Schneider Family, with Rudi (second right) and his brother Willi (far right) - the Austrain spiritualist physical mediums pictures with their parents

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