Harry Price Library Gallery

Davenport Brothers

Ira Davenport on the left, his brother William on the right : preparing to bind them inside their cabinet are Mr Fay and Mr Cooper, who will ensure that no trickery is involved

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1864, Bind, Brother, Brothers, Cabinet, Circa, Cooper, Davenport, Ensure, Fay, Historical, History, Inside, Involved, Ira, Left, Mediumship, Mr, Paranormal, Preparing, Trickery, Who, Will I Am

Margery Crandon 6

Comparison of the thumbprint of Walter, control of American medium Margery, with that of a living Boston dentist - one of the dubious items which aroused suspicions of tricks

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American, Aroused, Boston, Comparison, Control, Crandon, Dentist, Dubious, Early, Historical, History, Items, Living, Margery, Medium, Mediumship, Paranormal, Suspicions, Thumbprint, Tricks, Walter

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

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1932, Allegedly, Austrian, Experiment, Handkerchief, Historical, History, Knot, Laboratory, Medium, Mediumship, National, Paranormal, Paranormally, Physical, Psychical, Rudi, Schneider, Spiritualism, Spiritualist, Test, Tied