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. Willi Schneider (1903 - 1971), brother of Rudi Schneider, was an Austrian spiritualist physical medium investigated by notable psychical

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

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

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. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into

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. 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

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

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. 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

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

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

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. 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)

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. The Davenport Brothers were instrumental in building the popularity of the American Spiritualist movement prior

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