Seance Collection (page 2)

Anna Eva Fay Ticket
Ticket (to admit one lady) to a seance by the American stage medium. Date: circa 1855 - 1927

The master mentalist, Newmann the man who knows and his marvelous show of wonders : including the science baffling Simla seance

Mediumship / Muller
A Martian script received by Catherine Muller (ka Helene Smith ) in seance at Geneva; it consists of a letter to her Martian friend Astane Date: 3 October 1898

The Interrupted Seance by Arthur Watts
Complete demoralisation of psychical research party on arrival of a real ghost. Humorous illustration by Arthur Watts poking fun at the growth of interest in the existence (or not)

Scottish medium Helen Duncan starting to emit ectoplasm
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan starting to emit " ectoplasm" with " glove" during sance in Edinburgh whilst being controlled, May 1933. HPG/1/4/2(i)"

Ectoplasm forming from Helen Duncans mouth
Undated photograph showing " ectoplasm" forming from the Scottish medium Helen Duncans mouth down her front and over shoulder. HPG/1/4/2 (vi)

Esson Maude at Edinburgh seance venue
Photograph of Esson Maude recreating where she sat during sitting with the Scottish medium Helen Duncan at the sance venue in Edinburgh, January 1933

Undated photograph showing ectoplasm forming
Undated photograph showing " ectoplasm" forming from the Scottish medium Helen Duncans mouth down her front and over shoulder. HPG/1/4/2 (v)

Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic ha
Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic " hands" or pseudopods, often witnessed at the Rudi Schneider sances, 1929

Teleplasmic hand holding basket at a seance
Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic " hands" or pseudopods, often witnessed at the Rudi Schneider sances, 1929

Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded
Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing " ectoplasm" and a " hand". The photograph is annotated to show fraudulence

Photograph of electrical counter-poise table for taking automatic photographs, 8 March 1932. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into the mediumistic

Money for the Helen Duncan seance
Photograph of envelope with the following written upon it: " Received from Miss Maule, The sum of Four Pounds, 5th January 1933, for tonights sance. Helen Duncan", January 1933

Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance with " ectoplasm" wrapped around her head and reaching down to the floor, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (xi)"

Scottish medium Helen Duncan during a sance
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during a sance with her head covered with " ectoplasm" reaching down to her lap, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (xv)"

Etats-Generaux
Louis XII, though ruling as autocratically as most kings, finds it prudent to consult his subjects from time to time : he holds a seance of the states-general at Tours

Schneider Seance / Price
Rudi Schneider sitting in seance with Harry Price, who conducted experiments into his spiritualist powers

Medium / Mrs Tomson

Marriott Levitation
Professional magician Williams Marriott excelled in exposing mediums tricks. A table is lifted - by the spirits - or by human agency ?

Poster: Davenport Seance
A poster giving the synopsis of an evening of entertainment including two demonstration seances by Ira Davenport & Fay who pretended to be spirit mediums but used stage tricks

Houdini Exposes Trick
Houdini demonstrates how with the help of an assistant, a skilful medium can exchange a blank slate for a marked one in mid-seance

Rudi in Braunau
Austrian medium Rudi Schneider on the couch in the seance room at the Schneider home, Braunau

Penelope Materialises
At a seance held at 20 Gannon Road, Worthing, Penelope, the mediums control, materialises, speaks to, and shakes hands with Mr James Bannister of Brighton

Flying Objects
How a fraudulent medium creates the illusion that the spirits are causing objects to fly round the seance room

Happier Now
Revelations from the beyond - a distressed widow learns that her husband is far happier now than when he was living

Eglinton & Form
The second phase of materialisation, displayed at an Eglinton seance

Palladino 1908 Paris
Eusapia at age 54 produces a materialisation at a Paris seance

Seance, New York
Seance at New York with an unnamed medium : though all hold hands, a phantom guitar floats above their heads !

Seance Device
Four spiritualists try a new method of communicating with the spirits, using a metal plate and electrical controls in a way I don t pretend to understand (text in Swedish)

Table Moving Seance
A table-moving seance en famille during the early days of spiritualism

ROSALIE
Alleged spirit photograph of Rosalie the little girl whose materialisation at a seance in Brockley, south London, was attested to by Harry Price

Prices Device
Investigator Harry Price with the electric control he devised to detect movements of the mediums hands and feet during a seance

De Vesmematerialisation
Cesar de Vesme testifies to witnessing materialisations in which misty shapes detach from the medium and move around the seance room

Delanne Materialisation
At a seance organised by Delanne, a misty figure detaches itself from the unnamed medium and approaches the sitters

Seance in a Garret
A spirit seance in a garret on a winter evening in Germany

SEANCE 1850S
A spirit seance during the early years of spiritualism

Herne & Williams
Witchcraft in 1871 an exciting seance held by Frank Herne and Charles Williams at Katherfelto Row, Hamburg Square, London; they were later exposed

Palladino 1880S
Eusapia creates materialised arms at a seance in the 1880s

Palladino after Seance
Eusapia coming round after a seance, 1892

Palladino at Table
Eusapia at the seance table 1909

Table Turning / Gasparin
A table turning seance of Agenar de Gasparin, Switzerland Date: 1853

Mediumship / Mrs Guppy
Helped by Katie King, Agnes Nichol, the second Mrs Guppy, flies through the night sky over northern London, to land heavily where she has been summoned at a seance

Paranormal / Esp 1912
Various psychic powers depicted on the cover of a French magazine

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