[Album of Spirit Photographs] 1870 - 1880

This album of spirit photographs, created by Frederick Hudson between 1870 and 1880, captures the Victorian fascination with the afterlife and spiritualism. The album contains four separate photographs, each depicting a figure sitting in a chair, seemingly in conversation with a ghostly apparition. The ghostly figures are translucent and appear to be draped in fabric, further adding to the ethereal and otherworldly nature of the images. Hudson was a known practitioner of spirit photography, a technique used to capture the spirits of the deceased in photographs. This album, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers a glimpse into the Victorian fascination with the supernatural and the evolving world of photography.