Scrapbook (BK).
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TitleScrapbook (BK).
Reference codeMS912/1/35
Datec1914-c1970
Scope and ContentPress cuttings including those relating to the conviction and imprisonment of Attilio Messina and the rise of the Messina family crime empire in London; court reports of Hunt v. Brown, the trial of the medium John Jesse Hunt and his alleged fraudulent procurement of £20,000 from a clients will; obscene publications being tried in court; the behaviour of teenagers; the introduction of the Street Offences Act 1959; Vladimir Nabokov and his novel "Lolita"; Charles Dickens and his affair with Ellen Ternan; apartheid; pornographic films; Aleister Crowley; television mediums and Sir William Crookes. Also included are articles, "A Castle, A Culture, A Market" (Parts 1 & 2) - a profile of Eugene Gilbert from The New Yorker magazine, "A Remarkable Psychograph" (Light, October 1920) and "Psychic Photography Debated" (Light, 19 May 1933); letters responding to Dingwall's criticism of psychic photography (Light, October 1921), those from Dingwall to the editor of "Light" regarding correspondence with William Hope and psychic photography and others about the use of colour film to photograph seances; two sets of notes from a meeting of the Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures (1922), with examples of photographs; a review by Dingwall of "The Case for Spirit Photography" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and others (1922) and reports on Andrade's "The Electromagnetic Space Tensioner (TEEM)" and "The PSI-Matter" and of the Lady Grey and Mercer seances by Dingwall. (Items numbered 1-222).
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Extent1 scrapbook
Level of descriptionfile