PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE

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Sir WILLIAM CROOKES

with Florence Cook, materialisation medium

Photograph 2

This photograph shows the fully materialised figure of Katie King.

"Photography", said William Crookes in Researches into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism, "is as inadequate to depict the perfect beauty of Katie's face as words are powerless to describe her charms of manner. Photography may, indeed, give a map of her countenance; but how can it reproduce the brilliant purity of her complexion, or the ever-varying expression of her most mobile features."