Investigative seances held by Canadian physician Thomas Glendenning Hamilton and his wife, Lillian Hamilton, attracted a visit from British author Arthur Conan Doyle.
(University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections)
An art exhibit, ‘The Undead Archive: 100 Years of Photographing Ghosts,’ sees contemporary artists contextualize uncanny photographs taken between the World Wars in Winnipeg.
Spirit photograph by William Hope, taken around 1920.
(National Media Museum Collection/Flickr)
Today viewers may be preoccupied by the methods used by spirit photographers, but spirit photographs had a notable impact on the bereaved who commissioned the portraits.
Spirit photograph from 1901.
(Library of Congress/John K. Hallowell; S.W. Fallis, photographer)