Back in December 2013, Swann auctioned an album of 27 spiritualist photographs from seances at Dr. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton's Psychic Room in Winnipeg, Canada in the early 1920s for $93,750--in fact, the album was the auction's highest priced lot.
Now, as part of our upcoming sale of Vernacular Photography--the first auction of its kind--we have more spooky spiritualism images to offer:
Now, as part of our upcoming sale of Vernacular Photography--the first auction of its kind--we have more spooky spiritualism images to offer:
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| Lot 31 is a group of five photographs depicting spirits appearing before an impervious bearded man taken by London spiritualists Richard Boursnell and J. Evans Sterling, 1895-96 |
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| Lot 32 is a group of 10 cartes-de-visite of famous Victorian-era British medium Georgiana Houghton by Frederick Hudson, each with copious handwritten observations on the back, 1875-76. |
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| Lot 33 is a collection of eight 1930s photographs of seances and automatic writing, many credited to brothers Craig and George Falconer, who were eventually arrested for fraud. |