1871 SPIRITUAL ANALYST. The Faux-Poe. New Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Delivered Post-Mortem. Congregational This original glass negative and

This original glass negative and accompanying sepia and grayscale photograph were taken by Brown Brothers Photography

- The Original and Present State of Man

leadeth to utter destruction

verged on the dangerous

Original diminuitive calf

1871 SPIRITUAL ANALYST. The Faux-Poe. New Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Delivered Post-Mortem. Congregational This original glass negative andA very nice sammeband containing a four month run of The Spiritual Analyst from 1871, a prospectus for the magazine, and a final, separately issued work by the editor. All of these issued during the post Civil War boom in American Spiritualism. Edited by John H. W. Toohey, a prominent Spiritualist lecturer and radical reformer, this short lived periodical captures the movement's intense effort to legitimize itself not as a mystical parlor trick, but