Edward Wyllie
Illustration — Alleged spirit photograph produced by Wyllie Edward Arthur Sanders Wyllie (28 January 1848 – 6 March 1911) was a British medium and spirit photographer. Wyllie was born in Calcutta, British India, as a British subject, and moved to England as a small boy. He moved to California in 1886 to work as a photographer.
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Edward Wyllie
H. A. Reid · Photograph taken in 1897, appears in Unseen Faces Photographed-A Condensed Report (1901). · Public domain
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- 1848
- Died
- 1911
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- United States
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- photographer
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Illustration — Alleged spirit photograph produced by Wyllie Edward Arthur Sanders Wyllie (28 January 1848 – 6 March 1911) was a British medium and spirit photographer. Wyllie was born in Calcutta, British India, as a British subject, and moved to England as a small boy. He moved to California in 1886 to work as a photographer.
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Born in 1848, died in 1911.
Edward Wyllie (1848–1911) was an American photographer.
A fake spirit photograph produced by Edward Wyllie.
William Marriott · On the Edge of the Unknown. Pearson's Magazine. March-October 1910.
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- 1.India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786–1947
- 2.Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland & Company. p. 186.
- 3.1851 England Census
- 4.Nickell, Joe. (2005). Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation. University Press of Kentucky. p. 151.
- 5.Jolly, Martyn. (2006). Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography. Miegunyah Press. p. 51.
- 6.Stein, Gordon. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 517.
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