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Reporting on the spirit world...
Reporting on the spirit world...
Item # 698817
January 15, 1853
SPIRITUAL TELEGRAPH, New York, January 15, 1853
* Ghosts - mediums - spectre - apparition - spooks
The masthead notes; "Devoted To The Illustration of Spiritual Intercourse", focused on the spirit world. This is the volume 1, number 37 issue. This is the first of this title we have offered.
Among the articles: 'An Hour With the Spirits" "An Honorable Medium" "Another Convert to Immortality" and more.
Four pages with an illustrated masthead, never bound nor tripped, good condition.
AI notes: The Spiritual Telegraph was a weekly New York City newspaper founded in 1852 that became one of the earliest and most influential journals of the American Spiritualist movement, devoted to reporting on spirit communication, séances, and the activities of mediums. Initially published by Charles Partridge, it sought to document and investigate spiritual phenomena with a combination of news, personal accounts, and philosophical commentary, reflecting the growing public fascination with life after death in mid-19th-century America. In 1858, the paper expanded its scope and was renamed Spiritual Telegraph and Fireside Preacher, blending Spiritualist reporting with broader religious and moral commentary, though it remained committed to chronicling spirit manifestations and experiences. The publication ceased in 1860, but its impact persisted as its readership and subscription lists were absorbed by other Spiritualist journals such as the Herald of Progress, and its issues remain a valuable historical source for understanding the early Spiritualist movement and its cultural context in antebellum New York.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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