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Dorothy Henderson Medium
Photo taken October 2nd 1928 by F.C.E. Dimmick from M.S.A. England
"Mrs.
Dorothy Henderson. Head bent forward, hands controlled and Ectoplasm
covering her lap."
Gelatin-silver print, 3.5 x 5 inches
October 2, 1928
Inscribed on verso: "The M.S.A. has a whole series of
ectoplasmic photographs which I took under strict test conditions with Mrs.
Henderson as the Medium." Further inscribed, "See International Psychic
Gazette, December 1928."
The M.S.A. was the Marylebone Spiritualist
Association, presumably named for a section of Central London known as
Marylebone Village. (To read the article from the International Psychic
Gazette describing Mrs. Dorothy Henderson's seances and the making of this
photograph, click here.)
Dorothy Henderson may have been the subject
of a play written by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, based on his
experiences in spiritualism. Words Upon the Window Pane opened at the Abbey
Theater in Dublin in 1930 and has as its central character a medium named
Mrs. Henderson. A coincidence? We hope further research will provide an
answer. For now, there is drama enough in the strange, other-worldly
composition of this photograph, which some researchers find reminiscent of
Japanese Noh theater--another interest of Yeats. The "ectoplasm" seen
emerging from Mrs. Henderson's midsection is almost less remarkable than the
seemingly disembodied hands of the "controls," maintaining contact with the
medium in an effort to prevent fraud.