archive • the spirit photographs of william hope

the national media museum says about these: "these photographs of 'spirits' are taken from an album of photographs unearthed in a lancashire second-hand and antiquarian bookshop by one of the museum's curators. they were taken by a controversial medium called william hope (1863-1933)". more info here. thanks to erin for the link.

[all from national media museum.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph.