Mrs. Floyd & 4 Spirits
An 1870s spirit photograph by Benson C. Hazelton. The photograph features Mrs. Floyd, mother of Spiritualist medium Emma Hardinge Britten, and four recognized spirits.
Emma Hardinge Britten (1823 – 1899) – English advocate for the early Modern Spiritualist Movement. Much of her life and work was recorded and published in her speeches and writing and an incomplete autobiography edited by her sister. She is remembered as a writer, orator, trance clairvoyant, and spirit medium
Photograph ID: 2022.1545.1572
Type: Carte de Visite
Period: 1870s
Courtesy of: Michael McDowell Death Collection
Bonnet, Emma Hardinge Britten, Medium, Mother, Spiritualist, Woman