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Tagged: 1870s
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These 19th century photographic glass slides purport to show images of both the living and the dead.
The ghostly apparition pictures come from the collection of AJ Abbott, a practising spiritualist...
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These 19th century photographic glass slides purport to show images of both the living and the dead.
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A large number of police have surrounded the Glenrowan Inn. Ned Kelly and his gang attempt to release the hostages, but the nervous police open fire in the darkness and heavy rain. Superintendent...
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Ned (Heath Ledger), Dan Kelly (Laurence Kinlan), Steve Hart (Philip Barantini) and Joe Byrne (Orlando Bloom) lie in wait at the police bush camp near Stringybark Creek. Ned has already shot Constable...
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While Ned Kelly (Heath Ledger) dallies with Julia Cook (Naomi Watts), the English wife of his employer, Dan Kelly (Laurence Kinlan) and Joe Byrne (Orlando Bloom) throw Constable Fitzpatrick (Kiri...
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In this glass slide, a man looks up to his right at an illuminated spirit.
Many spirit images seem to be of people partially covered in robes that are superimposed into the image. The 'spirit' in...
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A black-and-white glass slide showing a man sitting on a chair with arms folded over his knees. He is looking to his left at a spirit, partially superimposed over his left arm and chest.
This is a...
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A black-and-white glass slide showing a fashionably dressed man sitting sideways on a chair, elbow resting over the side, with a spirit hovering at his left.
This is a typical example of the...
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A black-and-white glass slide showing two spirits - one behind and one to the left of a woman sitting on a chair.
In many of these glass slides the photographer has left a convenient space in which...
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A black-and-white glass slide showing two men sitting opposite each other, hands resting on a table, a spirit hovering behind them.
This photograph appears to show that the two men themselves have...