Hints and observations for those investigating the phenomena of spiritualism
A 1918 New York book by W. J. Crawford, a psychical researcher, offering practical guidance to readers who wished to investigate spiritualist phenomena for themselves. Its four photographs show a plain wooden table set up for séance experiments, with thread, a hanging dial, and a sitter with hands joined on the table, and the underside of the table opened to show its hidden interior. The sepia images, with their patterned wallpaper and bare floorboards, offer a designer a stark, documentary style of staged and apparatus-based display.
