Both sides of the veil : a personal experience
A 1909 Boston spiritualism book by Anne Manning Robbins, drawn from the Harry Houdini collection at the Library of Congress, written about the medium Leonora Piper and her séances. Both pictures are sepia studio portraits in profile: a woman with hair swept into a low bun and a high-collared dark dress, and a bearded man in a dark suit and tie, in soft tonal photographic halftone with a plain cream margin that suggests formal, dignified frontispiece portraiture for a designer studying early twentieth-century period portrait conventions.
