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Spirit photography and paranormal manifestations


 
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At the intersection of bereavement, technology, and faith lies the fascinating history of spirit photography and paranormal manifestations. Luminous-Lint examines these "spectral" images not just as deceptions, but as vital artifacts of Victorian culture and the human desire to document the unseen.

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Contents

Introduction
1Spirit photography
2Sensitivity to photographs
3Dreams and visions
4Cabinet cards: Spirit photography
Notorious examples
5William H. Mumler: Spirit photography
6P.T. Barnum: Spiritual Photography (1866)
7Abraham Lincoln as a returning spirit
8William Hope: Spirit photography and séances
9Richard Boursnell & J. Evans Sterling (London Spiritualists): Spirit photographs
10Miss Houghton: Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye (1882)
11Cottingley Fairies
12Dr. Enrico Imoda: Fotografie di Fantasmi (1912)
13Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism
14Thomas Glendenning Hamilton's Psychic Room in Winnipeg, Canada (1920-1922)
Scientific experiments
15Ranger & Austen: Clairvoyant Medical Examinations - Buffum & Cleveland

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