Album Page with Four Spirit Photographs

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Title Album Page with Four Spirit Photographs
Creator Reeves
Creator Nationality English
Style Period 19th Century Photography
Description Inscriptions, clockwise from top left: "Count von Wimpffen with spirit of officer killed in the Austrian War"; "Clara Harris with the spirit of her father. The attitude is that in which he used to walk in the latter part of his life. He had bad attacks of gout and limped with a stick."; "The spirit of the housekeeper of the sitter's father. She had a habit of plucking nervously at her dress, and the trick is preserved for identification. The cap is one which the sitter had bought in Paris as a present to her. Taken June 28, 1872. Recognized."; "Alfred Ryder. Shot on the coast of Africa. Recognized."
Subject Spirit Photographs; Occult
Creation Date 1872 CE
Form photographs
Medium albumen silver prints
Dimensions approx. 10 x 7.5 cm each
Repository The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (USA)
Source The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004.
Work ID 13239
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6r81sdc
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 38995
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6r81sdc
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