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35 photos and 1 illustration tagged fraud, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• fake
• spirit
• ghost
• psychic
• photography
• paranormal
• ectoplasm
• weird
• experiment
• eerie
• creepy
• odd
• spiritphotography
• supernatural
• blackandwhitephotograph
• mrcpmaccarthy
• lecture
• lanternslides
• genuine
• testconditions
• surreal
• unusual
• 1934
• captured

Members using this tag

• North East Museums 22 photos & illustrations
• National Science and Media Museum 6 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 4 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 2 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration

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James George Chase, munitions worker, arrested for obtaining money by false pretences

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  Ouch. £20 back then was a lot of money.

• David Lovely said:

  quite the dandy, wasn't he? What a dapper villain!

• jamica1 said:

  Wonderful piece of social history

• Decembre said:

  Thank you for your post in : Portrait★Faces

A clergyman and two spirits

from National Science and Media Museum

• 55 older comments, and then…
• glamorous stew said:

  Which is which? More explicit description would be useful here.

• vvitch said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage Spirit Photography, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Alicia said:

  Search William Hope. He was one of the premiere spirit photographers of the early Twentieth Century and was considered by believers and supporters to be a true master of the art of producing spirits on ordinary photographic plates. To others, he was a clever trickster and while he had more than his share of detractors, he was often accused of fraud but was never caught at it -- thanks to the controversy that surrounded the main attempt to expose him.

• enceladusj said:

  Oh baloney.

• andu15 said:

  those photos are really creepy!:))

Psychic Photography

from North East Museums

• Jack Falstaff said:

  As I'm sure you already know, this image is a reproduction of a paper negative taken by W. Fox Talbot at Lacock Abbey in August 1835. It has often been reproduced in photographic texts and is generally accepted as the oldest surviving photographic negative. As far as I know it has never been in any way associated with psychic photography.

• Paul Jackson said:

  Jack Falstaff Yes, definitely the famous Lacock Abbey image. www.ssplprints.com/image/108641/talbot-william-henry-fox-...