4Ada Emma Deane and others

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4Ada Emma Deane and others
Spirit photographs, 1920s-30s
Album containing forty-one gelatin silver prints including two mounted together on card loosely inserted, and five photomechanical prints, sizes approx. 4 x 3 in. to 6½ x 4½ in., one dated July 1st 1920 in the negative, each with ink inscription and with occasional typed descriptive labels on mounts; printed ephemera loosely inserted, red cloth (lacking spine and partially disbound), signed and titled Psychic Extras...by Deane and S.P.9 in ink on paper label on front cover (partially removed), 4to.

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Lot Essay

Including portraits of 'the late A.P. Sinnett', 'Major H.M. Barnes', and 'Tara' the wolfhound.

Ada Deane was a leading psychic photographer of the period following the First World War and known particularly for her spirit photographs.

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