B-26 Marauder Medium Bomber; Second World War, 1944Illustration showing an American B-26 Marauder medium bomber flying through light flak above the coast of France, 1944
L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. How our gunners won the VC and silenced the fire of the German guns in face of overwhelming odds Retreat from Mons, 1st September 1914
B-25 Mitchell Bomber taking off from Hornet; Second WorldPhotograph showing an American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber taking off from the aircraft carrier Hornet on 18th April 1942
The Unknown Warrior - scene at Westminster Abbey, 11th November 1920. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963). One of the most accomplished realistic illustrators and artists of his time
Mediums / Leonora PiperLEONORA PIPER American medium Date: 1859 - 1950
Plants / Campanula MediumCANTERBURY BELL
Helen Duncan - Ectoplasm & Teleplasmic handPiece of card showing two undated photographs of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing " ectoplasm" and a " hand"
Leonora Piper - MediumLeonora Piper American medium
Einer Nielsen 1921Einer Nielsen, Danish medium, producing ectoplasm at Oslo
ESPERANCEElizabeth Hope, known as Elizabeth d Esperance medium Date: 1855 - 1919
Seance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical ResearchUndated photograph of corner of the sance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, with trumpets on table. HPG/1/2/1 (vi)
Mina CrandonAmerican physical medium, whose authenticity was much questioned but never conclusively disproved
Dd home and ChairDaniel Dunglass Home, Scottish-American medium, remains the most enigmatic of all spirit mediums, performing extraordinary feats which have never been explained
Mediumship / MarriottWILLIAMs MARRIOTT EXPOSES Marriott simulates Polish medium Stanislawa Tomczyks levitation of a glass tumbler in full light
Convolvulus & C. BellPink CONVOLVULUS (Bindweed) & blue & white CAMPANULA MEDIUM Canterbury Bell) depicted with bees
Medium / Helen DuncanHELEN DUNCAN Portrait of the spirit medium circa 1940
Mediumship / SeanceRaphael N Hutter attends a seance with an unnamed French medium
Gordon Highlander interrogated by German OfficersI won t - After a raid on the British lines in Northern France, a Gordon Highlander is being interrogated by German Officers.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)
Austrian medium Maria SilbertPhotograph of the Austrian medium Maria Silbert, wearing a hat and sitting in a coach outside her home in Graz, 1933. Austrian medium Maria Silbert (died 1936)
Repulsing the famous Prussian guard at Ypres. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere, though the illustration was first done in 1914
Helen Duncan showing ectoplasmUndated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan showing " ectoplasm" bunched around Duncans mouth and twisted into a tail between her legs. HPG/1/4/2 (iv)
Rudi Schneider, aged 14. Rudi Schneider (27 July 1908 - 1957), son of Josef Schneider and brother of Willi Schneider, was an Austrian spiritualist and Physical Medium
Willi Schneider when young seated with Harry Price. Willi Schneider (1903 - 1971), brother of Rudi Schneider, was an Austrian spiritualist physical medium investigated by notable psychical
Ingeborg KoberNorwegian medium Ingenborg Kober, whose father Judge Dahl died in mysterious circumstances, which were finally judged to be accidental
Margery Crandon 7Spirit photo of controversial American medium Margery, with alleged spirit faces. Few today would attempt a defence of Margery - writes investigator J Gordon Melton
Duncan Ectoplasm 4English medium Helen Duncan ejaculates a trailing flow of ectoplasm for Harry Price. It is very similar to cheesecloth in composition
Seance with Rudi SchArtists impression of a seance with Austrian medium Rudi Schneider at London, under the supervision of Harry Price : the reality was seldom if ever as dramatic as this !
Rudi Schneider SeanceRudi Schneider (centre) - Austrian physical medium - and Harry Price (second right) re- enact their session - London
WW2 Poster -- Don t Waver, Help WavellDont Waver, Help Wavell. En---ds War Weapons Week, 17-24 May 1940. War saving photolithographic poster, published by The National Savings Committee, London, The Scottish Savings Committee
Rev Francis Ward Monck and William Oxley, spiritualistsRev 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
Taking the wounded aboard a British ambulance train on the Western Front. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)
With the field guns on the Western Front. A visit to a British battery. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)
ALLAN KARDECAllan Kardec - real name Hyppolyte Leon Denizard Rivail French medium and occult theorist, father of modern spiritism
Emma Hardinge BrittenEMMA HARDINGE BRITTEN English-born spiritualist in America, author, actress, musician, medium and tireless promoter of the spiritualist cause
Gladys Osborne Leonard, trance mediumGladys Osborne Leonard (1882-1968), British trance medium. Date: 20th century
Danish medium Anna RasmussenUndated photograph of the Danish medium Anna Rasmussen (1898 - ?), author of automatic scripts
Alleged Abnormal levitation of a tableUndated photograph of the alleged abnormal levitation of a table (inverted), photographed at a sance with Mrs Poole of Winnipeg. HPG/1/7/25
The method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediumsUndated photograph showing the method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediums by means of electrical control. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into
Rudi Schneider TestedAustrian medium Rudi Schneider is tested in London by Harry Price and colleagues. The findings suggest psychic powers but are controversial
Handkerchief Knot TestTest at the National Psychical Laboratory on Rudi Schneider the Austrian spiritualist physical medium. Here, a knot has allegedly been tied paranormally in a handkerchief
Home, Resting HeadAmerican spirit medium
Paranormal / PsychokinesisSTANISLAWA TOMCZYK Polish medium, demonstrates PK while under hypnosis, to Ochorowicz at Wisla, Poland, raising small objects
Players Navy Cut Snap Game - The Sailor - holding a large pack of Players Navy Cut Cigarettes " Medium" Date: 1930
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during sance with " ectoplasm" wrapped around her head and the end tucked into her nostrils, May 1931
Tomczyk Demonstates PkStanislawa Tomczyk - Polish medium - demonstrates PK whilst under hypnosis to Ochorowicz in Poland by raising small objects, in this case a little ball
Margery Crandon 4Controversial American medium Margery in trance. She was exposed by Houdini but many believe her genuine
Stella CranshaweSpirit medium discovered by Harry Price, who seems to have believed her genuine, in contrast to Helen Duncan
