The final installation day for the Spectral Science exhibition in the USC library. Who knew we had such a collection not just of things like magic lanterns (that I did know), but of books about spiritualism, magic, ghosts, optics, and the rest of it? I felt that I was looking at masses of things that I should have (but didn't) consult for The Victorians and the Visual Imagination. And tomorrow I get to talk about the issues set in motion by all of this material ...
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