Spiritualist Collection

Andrew Johnson, President of the United States
Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (1865-1869)

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

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

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

Andrew Jackson Davis American spiritualist, visionary etc. Date: 1826 - 1910

The method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediums
Undated photograph showing the method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediums by means of electrical control

Emma Hardinge Britten
EMMA HARDINGE BRITTEN English-born spiritualist in America, author, actress, musician, medium and tireless promoter of the spiritualist cause

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

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

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

Anna Maria Hall (Anon)
ANNA MARIA HALL Irish writer and spiritualist Date: 1800 - 1881

A sance with Willi Schneider
Undated flashlight photograph taken during a sance with Willi Schneider in his home town of Braunau, Austria, showing a white cloth " phantom" pinned to a curtain by means of a safety pin

Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at sance
Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at a sance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, 8 March 1932. Harry Price and Professor David Fraser-Harris are controlling Schneider

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

Man with Ghosts head in his lap
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921

Dr Frederick L H Willis, American spiritualist and physician
Dr Frederick Llewellyn Hovey Willis (1830-1914), American spiritualist minister and physician

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)

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

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

Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, physician and researcher
Dr Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (1862-1929), German physician, psychiatrist and psychical researcher

Houdini Posing With Female Medium
Escapologist Harry Houdini posing with the confessed fraudulent medium, Anna Clark Benninghoffer in the early twentieth century. Date: circa 1915

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

Man with Sisters Ghost
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921

Woman with spirit baby
From: Spookland, Thomas Shekleton Henry, Clyde Publishing, 1902: Mrs Mellon Spiritualist with Cissie the baby spirit, apparition ghost, phantom, spectre. Date: 1894

Emma Hardinge Britten with Beethovens Ghost
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921

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

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

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

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

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)

Hannen Swaffer
HANNEN SWAFFER legendary Fleet Street journalist, also a spiritualist Date: 1880? - 1962

Samuel Carter Hall
SAMUEL CARTER HALL writer and spiritualist Date: 1800 - 1889

A portion of the electrical device for controlling mediums
Undated photograph showing a portion of the electrical device devised and demonstrated by Harry Price, for controlling mediums

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

Mediums William and Ira Davenport
Undated illustration of American mediums and spiritualists William and Ira Davenport

Card of Yogi Fazalelahi Sheikh
The card of Yogi Fazalelahi Sheikh - the Great Fire Walker and Famous Spiritualist

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

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

Edward Maitland 1824-97
Edawrd Maitland (1824 - 1897) - English humanitarian writer. A supporter for the rights of higher education for women, a spiritualist and founder of The Hermetic Society in 1884

AKSAKOF
ALEXANDER AKSAKOF (variously spelt) Russian spiritualist and distinguished psychical researcher

German Spiritualist Book
Poster for a German book, Der Spiritismus, designed to appeal to a populace disillusioned by their defeat in World War One

Robert Hare
ROBERT HARE American scientist and spiritualist, noted for devising machines whereby to contact the spirits

Judge Edmonds
JOHN WORTH EDMONDS American judge and spiritualist

KATE FOX
CATHERINE (KATE) FOX [Mrs Jencken] pioneer spiritualist who later admitted cheating, then withdrew her admission

Margaretta Fox
MARGARETTA FOX (Mrs Kane) American spiritualist pioneer, briefly the wife of explorer Elisha Kent Kane, then his widow

S R Britain
S R BRITAIN American spiritualist

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