What’s New?
May 26, 2006
Added Breathing in a Lighter Spirit to main page.
February 15, 2006
Added 1869 Free Religious Association meeting to listings page.
February 14, 2006
Added Petitioning Congress to main page.
October 11, 2005
Added material to the Trying the Spirits page.
Added material to the Inventing the Future page.
Added Word Picture of Andrew Jackson Davis to the What is Spiritualism? page.
Added material to the Run on the Spiritual Bank page.
Revised and added material to the Discovering Wealth page.
Added Mountain Cove Community to the Listings page for 1852.
Added National Liberal League Meeting to the Listings page for 1884.
Added Philadelphia Spiritualists Association meeting schedule to the Listings page for 1885.
Added the History of Lily Dale to the Listings page for 1900.
October 6, 2005
Added Third Annual Convention of the National Spiritualists Association to the Listings page for 1895.
Added First Spiritual Temple, Boston to the Listings
page for 1895.
October 5, 2005
Revised links on main page for Photographing Heaven.
Added newspaper material on the beliefs of Lincoln, Grant, and Johnson to the Spiritualism at the White House page.
Added a brief history of Spiritualism in Chicago, 1850s through 1870s on the Listings page for 1877.
Added Onset Bay Grove Association to the Listings page for 1877.
Added Spiritual and Liberal Association of Grand Rapids, Michigan to the Listings page for 1879.
Added Neshaminy Falls Grove Spiritualist Campmeeting to the Listings page for 1879.
Added New York Spiritualists Conference to the Listings page for 1879.
Added Wisconsin Spiritualists to the Listings page for 1879.
Added Camp Etna, Maine to the Listings page for 1881.
Added Founding of Liberal, Missouri to the Listings page for 1881.
Added Niantic Spiritualist Campmeeting to the Listings page for 1883.
Added Neshaminy Falls Grove to the Listings page for 1884.
Added Southern Spiritualist Association to the Listings page for 1886.
Added Oregon State Spiritualist Association to the Listings page for 1888.
Added Maine Spiritualist Campmeeting to the Listings page for 1890.
Added A Visit to Lily Dale to the Listings page for 1892.
Added Spiritualist Campmeeting at Camp Benson to the Listings page for 1894.
Added Meeting of the NY Chapter of the NSA to the Listings page for 1896.
Added Tri-State Spiritualist Meeting to the Listings page for 1896.
Added 4th Annual Convention of the NSA to the Listings page for 1896.
Added 5th Annual Convention of the NSA to the Listings page for 1897.
Added Camp Chesterfield & the National Antispiritualist Association to the Listings page for 1897.
Added 7th Annual Convention of the NSA to the Listings page for 1899.
Added Proposal for a Spirit Trust to the Listings page for 1899.
Added International Congress of Spiritualists and Occultists to the Listings page for 1900.
Added Indiana Spiritualist Association to the
Listings page for 1900.
August 22, 2005
Added 1880 Professional Spiritualists (from the
Federal Census) to the Listings page.
August 12, 2005
Added 1859 National Spiritualists Convention reporting
to the Listings page.
May 6, 2005
Added 1869 New-York Herald reporting on
the annual meeting of the Friends of Human Progress to the Listings page.
April 28, 2005
Added Who Was Kersey Graves? to the Whatnot page.
March 19, 2005
Added reporting on the Ninth annual convention of the American Association of Spiritualists, September 1872, Boston, Massachusetts to the Listings page. Many thanks to Dora St. Martin!
March 13, 2005
Re-sized some hymns on Singing with the Muse page in order to make them easier to print.
March 7, 2005
Added Mind over Matter: Gold out of Thin Air to the Discovering Wealth page.
February 28, 2005
1860 Added notice of the annual convention of the Infidel Association of America. Thanks to Mark Lause!
February 24, 2005
1870 Added reporting on the 7th National Spiritualists Convention in Richmond, Indiana on Listings page.
March 9, 2004
Added names to Name-key, many of which were contributed by Tim Ryan (Thanks!).
January 31, 2004
Added pamphlet and membership application from the Veteran Spiritualists’ Union (Boston) to the 1891 Spiritualist Listings.
September 15, 2003
Added picture of Andrew Jackson Davis and of the Fox House to the What Is Spiritualism? page (linked from the Fading Records page).
September 14, 2003
Added engraving of Ada Foye to the Liberating the Spirit page and of John Bundy to the Spirit Brides and Rag Babies page (linked from the Trying the Spirits page).
September 8, 2003
Added Adaline Buffum Publishes News from the Spirit World to the Notes on These Listings page (linked from the Spiritualist Listings page).
Reformatted some of the pages in the hopes of increasing their clarity.
September 5, 2003
Revised and added new material to the Elevating the Race page.
August 18, 2003
Added:
Kindergarten Comes to America to the Whatnot page.
August 11, 2003
Added:
1858 New York Herald reporting on the Utica Philanthropic Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1878 Watkins Freethinkers Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
August 8, 2003
Added:
1864 Formation of the Religio-Philosophical Society to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1865 Second National Spiritualist Convention, Philadelphia, to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1858 New York Tribune reporting on the Free Convention, Rutland, Vermont, to the Spiritualist Listings page.
August 4, 2003
Added:
1880 Spritualist summer camp meetings, from Emma H. Britten, to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1869 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser reporting on the Sixth National Spiritualists Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
August 1, 2003
Added:
1868 Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser reporting on the Fifth National Spiritualists Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
July 31, 2003
Added:
1866 Providence Journal and New York Times reporting on the Third National Spiritualists Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
July 30, 2003
Added:
1864 Chicago Tribune reporting on the First National Spiritualists Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
July 28, 2003
Added:
Formation of the Moral Police Fraternity, 1863, to the Spiritualist Listings page.
Formation of the Harmonial Brotherhood, 1851, to the Spiritualist Listings page.
Officers of the Universal Peace Union, 1887-1888, to the Spiritualist Listings page.
July 25, 2003
Added:
1867 Cleveland Plain Dealer reporting on the Fourth National Spiritualist Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
July 24, 2003
Added:
“The Old Subject of Propagation” to the Redeeming
the Dead page.
July 6, 2003
Incorporated more names into the Name-key, thanks
to Tim Ryan.
June 9, 2003
Added:
“A Cakewalk” and “Declaration of Fashion Independence”
to the Whatnot page.
May 30, 2003
Added:
1858 New York Times reporting on the Rutland
Free Convention (and on the New York Free Love League) on the Spiritualist
Listings page.
May 28, 2003
Added:
1852 New York Times and Boston Journal
reporting on spiritualist convention in Boston on the Spiritualist Listings
page.
May 25, 2003
Added:
1853 Springfield Republican reporting on
spiritualist convention on the Spiritualist Listings page.
May 23, 2003
Added:
1855 New York Times reporting on spiritualist activities in the New York City area during one week in September on the Spiritualist Listings page.
1853 Alton Daily Courier reporting on convention
in Peoria that mixed spiritualism and women’s rights.
May 5, 2003
Added:
1852 Spiritual Convention and other events in Cleveland, on the Spiritualist Listings page.
More listings on Namekey page, thanks to Tim Ryan.
May 2, 2003
Added:
On Books page, links to online 19th-century articles available at the Wright Collection at Indiana University.
On Books page, more links to MOA Cornell site
and to other sites with primary sources.
April 28, 2003
Added:
“The Revolution in Dress” to the Whatnot page.
More explanation from Simon C. Hewitt of the spiritual
architecture on the “Homes of Harmony” page.
April 27, 2003
Added:
Magnetic Society of New Orleans 1851 to the Listings page.
February 4, 2003
Added:
“Discovering Wealth” and the materials associated with it.
February 3, 2003
Added:
“Access to the Tree of Life” to the “Redeeming the Dead” page.
January 25, 2003
Added:
Two pictures of Samuel Byron Brittan and a picture of Amanda Theodosia Jones.
“Rosebud” to the Whatnot page.
January 18, 2003
Added:
“A New, Straight, Short and Easy Road to the Summit of Your Wishes” to the “Inventing the Future” page.
January 16, 2003
Revised external links on the “Photographing Heaven” page and added links to the Books page.
Added:
Image of S. S. Jones and more information about him to the “Elevating the Race” page.
January 15, 2003
Added:
“Redeeming the Dead” with accompanying materials.
January 12, 2003
Added:
“More Children’s Performances” to the “Eliminating the Impossible” page.
January 7, 2003
Added:
1887 Banner of Light Spiritualist lecturers to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1888 Banner of Light Spiritualist lecturers to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1884 Banner of Light Spiritualist lecturers to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1866 First Spiritualist Mass Camp Meeting to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1874 Universal Association of Spiritualists Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
“The Ancient Band from Atlantis” to the “Inventing the Future” page.
“Storms in the Mother’s Mind” to the “Elevating the Race” page.
January 6, 2003
Added:
1866 American Association of Spiritualists Annual Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1866 Michigan State Spiritual Association to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1852 Convention of Believers in Spiritual Manifestations to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1876 Spiritualist Campmeeting, Dubuque, Iowa to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1881 Banner of Light Spiritualist Lecturers to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1883 Banner of Light Spiritualist Lecturers to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1885 Banner of Light Spiritualist Lecturers to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1886 Banner of Light Spiritualist Lecturers to the Spiritualist Listings page.
January 1, 2003
Added:
“Planchette” to the “Talking Board” page.
“Lap Planchette” to the “Talking Board” page.
“The Martyrdom Business” to the “Elevating the Race” page.
1871 Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly convention reporting to the Spiritualist Listings page.
December 31, 2002
Added:
1863 Moral Police Fraternity to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1898 London Spiritualist Alliance to the Spiritualist Listings page.
December 30, 2002
Added:
1884 National Liberal League to the Spiritualist Listings page.
December 29, 2002
Added:
1871 North Collins Friends of Human Progress Meeting minutes to the Spiritualist Listings page.
December 24, 2002
Added:
1868 American Association of Spiritualists to the Spiritualist Listings page.
December 23, 2002
Added:
“Walt Wonders from Whence Comes Inspiration” to the “Inducing Trance” page.
“Ministrations of the Departed” to the “Harriet Beecher Stowe—Only Holding the Pen” page.
“The Dial Alphabet” to the “Talking Board” page.
“The Death and Burial of Edgar Allan Poe” to the “Whatnot” page.
1854 Massachusetts Spiritualist Convention and Call for a national convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1855 Paid notices of mediums, spirit circles, and healers in the Spiritual Telegraph to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1879 New England Labor Reform League and New England Free Love League to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1880 Union Reform League, Second Annual Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1880 Anti-Death League, Third Annual Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1881 Union Reform League, Third Annual Convention to the Spiritualist Listings page.
1884 Early History of the New York Freethinkers Association to the Spiritualist Listings page.
December 20, 2002
Added:
1885 American Society for Psychical Research to the Spiritualist Listings page.
December 18, 2002
Added:
“The First Public Lecture on Spiritualism” to the “What Is Spiritualism?” page.
“Timothy Taylor Feels the Angels’ Power through a Spirit Photo” to the “Photography Studio as Séance Room” page.
“The Hymnology of Spiritualism” to the “Singing with the Muse” page.
“How to Use the Psychograph” and “The Psychograph—An Explanation” to the “Talking Board” page.
“Harriet Beecher Stowe—Only Holding the Pen” to the “Envisioning the War” page.
“Guided by Spirits of Some Kind” to the “Trying the Spirits” page.
1885 Western Society for Psychical Research (Chicago) to the Spiritualist Listings page.
December 14, 2002
Added:
“What is the New Age?” to the “Fading Records” page.
1884 Southern Association of Spiritualists Convention Minutes to Spiritualist Listings page.
1884 New England Spiritualist Campmeeting Association at Lake Pleasant Announcement to Spiritualist Listings page.
1884 American Spiritualist Association Convention Minutes selection to Spiritualist Listings page.
On the “Elizabeth French’s ‘Instant Photos’” page, an external link to a spirit photo by Jeremiah Gurney.
December 11, 2002
Added:
“A Mountebank Seducer” to the “Trying the Spirits” page.
December 5, 2002
Added:
“Andrew Jackson Davis and His Wives” to the “Note on These Listings” page.
“The Origin of Uncle Sam” to the “Whatnot” page.
“Opposition to the Lincoln Supporters” to the “Envisioning the War” page.
Completed another pass through the Name-key page, adding information gleaned from Federal Census records, 1850-1880.
September 9, 2002
Added:
“Eliminating the Impossible” with supporting documents.
September 8, 2002
Expanded Books section to include some articles and web links.
August 22, 2002
Incorporated two large batches of names from the various year-by-year listings into the “Name-key” page. Names were added from the listings if I had any additional information about them, besides what appears in the listings themselves. Also, names that appeared repeatedly in the listings over the years were also added, even if I only had a surname and an initial or two. In these cases of sparse information about their names, I have included the place(s) where the listings said they were residing. As of now, the “Name-key” incorporates most of the people in the listings (as well as other people).
August 20, 2002
Added:
“Latest American Invention—or Horror” to “Whatnot” page.
August 17, 2002
Website disappeared again on the 14th and then appeared again three days after I learned that my pathetic excuse for an internet service provider, after having cashed my check in May for payment to renew my domain registration in July, failed to contact Network Solutions, despite my five telephone calls and three e-mail requests asking them to do so.
August 13, 2002
Added many names to Name-Key; completed additional round of proofreading of Spiritualist Listings (thanks to material supplied by Mark Lause).
Website is back again after having been banished to the ether for two days by “network backbone” problems.
July 1, 2002
Added:
Section on Amanda Jones and Vacuum Canning to
“Inventing the Future” page.
June 21, 2002
Added:
“Sherman’s Red Flannel Underwear” to “Envisioning
the War” page.
June 10, 2002
Added:
“The Jubilee: A Song for the Anti-Slavery Crusade”
to “Envisioning the War” page.
June 8, 2002
Added:
“Beauty and the Bunco Man” to “Whatnot” page.
1882 Banner of Light (August 12): Spiritualist Listings.
“The Army of the Disembodied” and “Uncovering a Nefarious Scheme” to “Envisioning the War” page.
Edited:
“Spiritualists Write Home from the Front” on the
“Envisioning the War” page.
May 24, 2002
Added:
“Herndon Reminisces amongst the Lincoln Relics” to “Unlocking the Mystery of a Lincoln Relic” page.
“The Beautiful Art of Embalming the Dead” advertisement to “Envisioning the War” page.
Spiritualist jewelry advertisement to “Note on These Spiritualist Listings” page.
“University of the Spirit” to “Whatnot” page.
May 17, 2002
Added:
“Ar’n’t I a woman? (1863 Text)” to “Whatnot” page.
Picture of Hudson Tuttle to “Ennobling the Race” page.
May 16, 2002
Added:
Website owner bio page via links on “Fading Records” and “Unlocking the Mystery of a Lincoln Relic” pages.
“Spiritualists Write Home from the Front” to “Envisioning the War.”
May 15, 2002
Added:
“Spiritualism at the White House” to “Envisioning the War.”
“Affidavit of Isabella Youngs” to “Unlocking the Mystery of a Lincoln Relic.”
May 14, 2002
Added:
“Unlocking the Mystery of a Lincoln Relic” to “Envisioning the War.”
May 8, 2002
Added:
“Spiritualist Skepticism about Spirit Photographs” to “Early Attempts at Spirit Photography.”
May 6, 2002
Moved external links from “Early Attempts at Spirit Photography” to “Photographing Heaven.”
Added:
“Gurney Tests Mumler” to “Elizabeth French’s ‘Instant’ Images.”
“Mumler and Henry Newton’s Photographic Association” to “The Photographic Studio as Séance Room”
“Emma Hardinge’s Rules for the Spirit Circle” to “Inducing Trance.”
“Mysterious Piece of Mechanism” to “A Talking Board.”
May 2, 2002
Added:
“The Photographic Studio as Séance Room” to “Photographing Heaven.”
May 1, 2002
Added:
“Doctor Kidder Makes Visible Images of Invisible Energies” to “Elizabeth French’s ‘Instant’ Images.”
April 30, 2002
Added:
“The Culmination of Free Love” to “Trying the Spirits.”
Pictures of Moses Hull and Mattie E. Brown Sawyer Hull to “Trying the Spirits.”
Information on Henry J. Newton to “Early Attempts at Spirit Photography.”
1875 Letter and Card from the Miracle Club & Protective Committee of New York to “Spiritualist Listings” page.
April 28, 2002
Added:
“Moses Redivivus” to “Trying the Spirits.”
“Elizabeth Blanchard Finds Spirit Images Everywhere” to “Elizabeth French’s ‘Instant’ Images.”
April 16, 2002
Added:
To the selections from the Year-Book of Spiritualism for 1871: Spirit-Art; A Song and a Truth; How to Form Spirit-Circles; and The Anniversary of the Advent of Modern Spiritualism: The Thirty-First of March.
April 15, 2002
Added:
Expanded list of books.
April 8, 2002
Added:
“Elizabeth French’s ‘Instant’ Images” to “Photographing Heaven.”
April 7, 2002
Added:
“Frederick Douglass Views an Image Developed on Living Parchment” to Isaac Rehn page.
“Wonderful Manifestations by a Piano,” description of Catherine Mettler’s piano playing, Hudson Tuttle’s comment on Christian hymnary, and “The Spirit of Orpheus” to “Singing with the Muse” page.
“The Bangs Precipitate Portraits on Paper” to “Trying the Spirits” page.
March 16, 2002
Added:
“The Bangs Gang Returns” to “Trying the Spirits.”
March 15, 2002
Added:
“Singing with the Muse” with supporting material.
“Whatnot” with items on Amelia Bloomer and Mary Walker.
March 12, 2002
Added:
Isaac Rehn photo; also, “Professor Hare’s Spiritual Telegraph” to “Inducing Trance.”
February 22, 2002
Added:
Slightly revised Rehn page and added reference notes.
February 15, 2002
Added:
“Isaac Rehn and James Cutting Encounter Imponderable Forces,” to “Isaac Rehn’s ‘Everlasting Images.’” Also, information about the Penetralium to the Rehn page.
February 14, 2002
Added:
“New Phase of Spiritual Phenomena,” to “Early Attempts at Spirit Photography.”
Illustration of table tipping to “Inventing the Future.”
February 5, 2002
Added:
“Elevating the Race,” with associated documents.
Reinstalled mailbox.
November 5, 2001
Added:
1873 Proceedings of the National Convention of Liberalists and Spiritualists.
September 11, 2001
Added:
Cora Richmond quote on “the new age” to “19th Century American Spiritualism’s Fading Records.”
1898 Spiritualism Golden Jubilee celebration at Rochester, proceedings and address.
September 10, 2001
Added:
1897 California, Ohio, and Texas State Spiritualists Convention proceedings.
September 9, 2001
Added:
1897 National Spiritualists’ Association Annual Convention proceedings.
September 8, 2001
Added:
“Trying the Spirits,” with associated documents.
September 5, 2001
Added:
1898 Directory of California Mediums from The Philosophical Journal
September 4, 2001
Added:
“Inspirational Archaeology” and “A Realm of Poetic Possibilities for 1990” to “Inventing the Future”
August 31, 2001
Added:
1873 List of Reformatory Lecturers from Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly.
August 29, 2001
Added:
Essay on “Envisioning the Civil War,” with associated documents.
Section on S. C. Hewitt’s spirit architecture in “Inventing the Future.”
August 28, 2001
Added:
Essay on “Liberating the Spirit,” with associated documents.
August 23, 2001
Added:
1873 Pennsylvania State Society of Spiritualists. Report of the Annual Convention.
1872 Religio-Philosophical Journal. List of Lecturers and Directory of Mediums.
August 18, 2001
Added:
1871 American Association of Spiritualists. Report of the Annual Convention.
Essay on “Inventing the Future,” with associated documents.
August 1, 2001
Attached Search Function to website.
July 25, 2001
Put up website.
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